Career Buddy

Career Buddy helps people find their best career by enabling them to explore the latest employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Users can visualize the highest paying careers, the fastest growing careers, or their own custom set of careers.

Getting Started - developers

To get you started you can simply clone the career-buddy repository and install the dependencies:

Prerequisites

Clone the career-buddy repository from https://github.com/skeller88/career-buddy.

Install node.js, its package manager (npm), and bower, from http://nodejs.org/ and http://bower.io/.

Install Ruby and RVM

Install the Ruby gems. gem install compass should install both Compass and Sass.

Install Dependencies

There are two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools and Angular framework code. The tools help manage and test the application.

npm is preconfigured to automatically run bower so after cloning the repo, run the following command:

npm install

Behind the scenes this will also call bower install. After runing npm install the project should have two new folders.

• node_modules - contains the npm packages for the tools we need
• app/bower_components - contains the Angular framework files

The trickiest bower dependency is kendo-ui-core, which must be kept in sync with Angular and jQuery: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/install/prerequisites. As of 1/14/15, the app is currently using kendo-ui-core 2014.2.716, which is compatible with Angular 1.2.16 and jQuery 1.9.1.

Make sure all of the Angular dependencies are the same version as well. Note that the bower_components folder would normally be installed in the root folder but angular-seed changes this location through the .bowerrc file. Putting it in the app folder makes it easier to serve the files by a webserver.

Run the Application

node src/server.js

or for automatic refreshing of server on changes:

nodemon src/server.js

Now browse to the app at http://localhost:3000/#/.

Run Tests

grunt test to run tests once

grunt watch to rerun tests whenever any .js files in spec/, src/, or app/ are changed.

Updating Dependencies

To find the latest versions that match the version ranges specified in the package.json file, run:

npm update

To find the latest versions that match the version ranges specified in the bower.json file, including Angular, run:

bower update