The "Zza Node Mongo" sample app is a single page application (SPA) built with Breeze, Angular, Node, and MongoDB. Instructions to install and run follow.
- Node.js >=0.10
- MongoDb >= v.2.6
Download ALL of the Breeze JavaScript samples from github as a zip file.
In this case we're interested in the "Zza" sample, located in the node/zza-node-mongo directory. These instructions assume this will be your current working directory.
Unzip ~/database/zza-mongo-database.zip into the database directory.
You should see zza.0, zza.1, and zza.ns side-by-side with zza-mongo-database.zip. If you accidentally unzip into a zza-mongo-database sub-directory, move these files up a level.
Open a command / terminal window
Start mongodb server while pointing to this database directory. On my windows machine, from the project root directory, I enter:
c:/mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath database
Console output should indicate that MongoDb server started successfully and is listening on port 27017 (or adjust the mongodbUrl in ~\server\database.js to the appropriate port).
Open a second command / terminal window
Navigate to the client folder, ~/node/zza-node-mongo/client
Install the bower packages: bower install
Navigate to the server folder, ~/node/zza-node-mongo/server
Install the node modules: npm install
You can ignore the sea of red describing rebuild failures of nested packages. It's OK; you'll be using the pre-build versions of those packages. Do make sure the install finishes completely without error.
Launch the app server: node server.js
Console output should indicate that app server started successfully and is listening on port 3000.
Start your browser with address http://localhost:3000
- Initial release.
- Demonstrates fundamental characteristics of a MongoDB app.
- Maintainable w/o any Microsoft assets at all, neither code nor development tools.
- Demonstrates more sophisticated user interaction paradigms than other Breeze samples. (It actually looks like a SPA.)