Look into Brunch.io for the app assembler, and go from there. I like that it's not opinionated like Yeoman and I choose the rest of the libraries as fashion com

Look into Brunch.io for the app assembler, and go from there. I like that it's not opinionated like Yeoman and I choose the rest of the libraries as fashion comes and goes. For my latest project, I'm running Brunch, Ember, Express, Mongo. It's awesome. Brunch comes with its own small express push-server to get you going, but it can be replaced by overriding the startServer function and going from there. For auth, passport.