ateoto / techTracker

baby's first angular app

techTracker

baby's first angular app

Prerequisites:

1.) Install NodeJS - http://nodejs.org

2.) Make sure NPM is up to date

sudo npm install npm -g

3.) Install Bower

npm install bower -g

Installation:

1.) Install techTracker folder via git

2.) Navigate into the client/src and install bower components

bower install

This will install the necessary bower components for the front end (Angular, Bootstrap, etc) from the bower.json file.

3.) Navigate into the server file and install npm components

sudo npm install

This will install the necessary server node modules for the project including MongoDB, ExpressJS, and Mongoose from the package.json file

With that, you should have everything you need to get techTracker up and running!

Setup:

You will need two terminal windows open; one for the database and one for the server.

You'll first need to start up your database. techTracker uses MongoDB and by default, the database is stored in the 'data' file. To start, create a file called data in your root project directory

mkdir data

Once that file is created, you should simple be able to start the database via this command:

mongod --dbpath data

You are free to set your dbpath to whatever works for you; this is simply the default.

Once you have the DB up and running properly, you should be able to start up the server without error. This project uses a node module called nodemon that eliminates the fuss of manually restarting the server.js file when changes are made to the server. Nodemon will watch the server.js file and automatically restart when changes are made.

Given that this project has nodemon set up as an alias in the package.json file, we should be able to start the server up by simply typing into the terminal from the server file:

npm start

And with that you're done! The app is by default set to run at http://localhost:3000 but you can change it to whatever works for you via the server.js file.