MEAN Tour of Heroes

Credit to Davide Violante as I used that repo as a reference.

This frontend was generated with Angular CLI version 1.3.0.

This project adds a server side to the Angular 4 Tour of Heroes tutorial and it uses the MEAN stack:

• Mongoose.js (MongoDB): database
• Express.js: backend framework
• Angular 4+: frontend framework
• Node.js: runtime environment

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

Development mode

npm run dev: concurrently execute MongoDB, Angular build, TypeScript compiler and Express server.

A window will automatically open at localhost:4200. Angular and Express files are being watched. Any change automatically creates a new bundle, restart Express server and reload your browser.

Production mode

npm run prod: run the project with a production bundle and AOT compilation listening at localhost:3000

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 .env and replace the MongoDB URI with a real remote MongoDB server. You can create a MongoDB server with Heroku or mLab.
10. npm i
11. ng build -prod or ng build -aot -prod
12. tsc -p server
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

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the -prod flag for a production build.

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.