steelheaddigital / angular2-express-starter

A starter for Angular with Express backend and angular-cli integration.

Express/Angular2 Starter

This is a starter template for an Angular2 application with an express JSON API backend. Includes basic authentication.

Prerequisites

Docker

Install Dev Environment

1. Clone this repo
2. Install Docker
3. Copy the sample.env file to a file named .env. Change the database passwords and session key if you would like.
4. In the directory where you cloned this repo, run the following to start the server

docker-compose up -d

5. On your local machine make sure you have node and npm installed.

6. Install angular-cli

npm install angular-cli

7. Start the client.

ng serve

A few other useful commands

Start with production settings

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Run tests

docker-compose run --rm test gulp test:server