ELWGLife Turbo

MEAN is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for 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.

Prerequisites

• Node.js - Download and Install Node.js. You can also follow this gist for a quick and easy way to install Node.js and npm
• MongoDB - Download and Install MongoDB - Make sure mongod is running on the default port (27017).

Tools Prerequisites

• NPM - Node.js package manage; should be installed when you install node.js.
• Bower - Web package manager. Installing Bower is simple when you have npm:

$ npm install -g bower

Optional

• Grunt - Download and Install Grunt.

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

Additional Packages

• Express - Defined as npm module in the package.json file.
• Mongoose - Defined as npm module in the package.json file.
• Passport - Defined as npm module in the package.json file.
• AngularJS - Defined as bower module in the bower.json file.
• Twitter Bootstrap - Defined as bower module in the bower.json file.
• UI Bootstrap - Defined as bower module in the bower.json file.

Quick Install

$ git clone https://github.com/ITEC-ELWG/ELWGLifeTurbo.git
$ npm install

We recommend using Grunt to start the server:

$ grunt

Then, open a browser and go to:

http://localhost:3000

Configuration

All configuration is specified in the server/config folder, particularly the config.js file and the env files. Here you will need to specify your application name, database name, and hook up any social app keys if you want integration with Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, or Google.

Environmental Settings

There are three environments provided by default: development, test, and production.

Each of these environments has the following configuration options:

• db - This is the name of the MongoDB database to use, and is set by default to mean-dev for the development environment.
• app.name - This is the name of your app or website, and can be different for each environment. You can tell which environment you are running by looking at the TITLE attribute that your app generates.
• Social OAuth Keys - Facebook, GitHub, Google, Twitter. You can specify your own social application keys here for each platform:
  • clientID
  • clientSecret
  • callbackURL

To run with a different environment, just specify NODE_ENV as you call grunt:

$ NODE_ENV=test grunt

If you are using node instead of grunt, it is very similar:

$ NODE_ENV=test node server

NOTE: Running Node.js applications in the production environment enables caching, which is disabled by default in all other environments.

Getting Started

We pre-included an article example. Check out:

• The Model - Where we define our object schema.
• The Controller - Where we take care of our backend logic.
• NodeJS Routes - Where we define our REST service routes.
• AngularJs Routes - Where we define our CRUD routes.
• The AngularJs Service - Where we connect to our REST service.
• The AngularJs Controller - Where we take care of our frontend logic.
• The AngularJs Views Folder - Where we keep our CRUD views.

License

The MIT License