The front-end of this project was generated with Angular CLI.

This project uses the MEAN stack:

• Mongoose.js (MongoDB): database
• Express.js: backend framework
• Angular 2: frontend framework
• Node.js: runtime environment
• Angular CLI: project scaffolding
• Bootstrap: layout and styles
• Font Awesome: icons

Prerequisites

1. Install Node.js and MongoDB
2. Install Angular CLI: npm i -g @angular/cli
3. From project root folder install all the dependencies: npm i

Run

1. Command window 1: mongod: run MongoDB
2. Command window 2: npm run server: run Express backend server (with autoreload)
3. Command window 3: npm start: run Angular frontend (with autobuild and autoreload)
4. Browser will automatically open to: localhost:4200

Production

Run npm run prod to run frontend with a production ready bundle.

Deploy (Heroku)

1. Go to Heroku and create a new app
2. Install Heroku CLI
3. heroku login
4. cd my-project/
5. git init
6. heroku git:remote -a your-app-name
7. Download this repo and copy all files into my-project folder
8. Edit .gitignore and remove line with /dist
9. Edit in package.json the start script to: "start": "node src/server/app.js"
10. Edit in app.js the url of MongoDB server to a real server. You can create a MongoDB server with Heroku.
11. npm i
12. ng build or ng build --prod
13. git add .
14. git commit -m "Going to Heroku"
15. git push heroku master
16. heroku open
17. A window will open with your app online

Please open an issue if

• you have any suggestion or advice to improve this project.
• you noticed any problem or error.

To do

• Tests

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor. Before running the tests make sure you are serving the app via ng serve.

Further help

To get more help on the angular-cli use ng --help or go check out the Angular-CLI README.