Mean-boilerplate

MEAN is a framework for an easy starting point with MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured. We mainly try to take care of the connection points between existing popular frameworks and solve common integration problems.

Prerequisite Technologies

Linux

Node.js - Download and Install Node.js, nodeschool has free node tutorials to get you started.
MongoDB - Download and Install mongodb - Checkout their manual if you're just starting.

If you're using ubuntu, this is the preferred repository to use...

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

Git - Get git using a package manager or download it.

Windows

Node.js - Download and Install Node.js, nodeschool has free node tutorials to get you started.
MongoDB - Follow the great tutorial from the mongodb site - "Install Mongodb On Windows"
Git - The easiest way to install git and then run the rest of the commands through the git bash application (via command prompt) is by downloading and installing Git for Windows

OSX

Node.js - Download and Install Node.js or use the packages within brew or macports.
MongoDB - Follow the tutorial here - Install mongodb on OSX
git - Get git from here.

Technologies

The MEAN stack

MEAN is an acronym for Mongo, Express.js , Angular.js and Node.js

MongoDB: Go through MongoDB Official Website and proceed to its Great Manual, which should help you understand NoSQL and MongoDB better.
Express: The best way to understand express is through its Official Website, particularly The Express Guide; you can also go through this StackOverflow thread for more resources.
AngularJS: Angular's Official Website is a great starting point. CodeSchool and google created a great tutorial for beginners, and the angular videos by Egghead.
Node.js: Start by going through Node.js Official Website and this StackOverflow thread, which should get you going with the Node.js platform in no time.

Additional Tools

Mongoose - The mongodb node.js driver in charge of providing elegant mongodb object modeling for node.js
Passport - An authentication middleware for Node.js which supports authentication using a username and password, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Jade - Jade is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node and browsers. Full documentation is at jade-lang.com
Twitter Bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects.
UI Bootstrap - Bootstrap components written in pure AngularJS

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