For information on how to start the application, look at server/README.md

Development installation

Prerequisites

• NodeJS 8.4.0+
• TypeScript 2.4.2+ - npm install -g typescript
• Angular CLI 1.3.1+ - npm install -g @angular/cli

Installing packages

• Navigate to server folder and execute npm install
• Navigate to web folder and execute npm install
• You might need to npm install -g typescript and npm install -g @angular/cli in order to execute tsc and ng later

Development

• Navigate to server folder and execute tsc --pretty --watch
• Navigate to web folder and execute ng build --sourcemaps --watch
• Open root folder (the one that contains server and web folders) in Visual Studio Code. You can use the following VS Code launch.json in the root folder:

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible Node.js debug attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Create DB",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/server/index",
            "outFiles": [
                "${workspaceRoot}/out/**/*.js"
            ],
            "args": [
                "--create-storage",
                "--app-administrator-password=123456"
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Normal start",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/server/index",
            "outFiles": [
                "${workspaceRoot}/out/**/*.js"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

• Press F5 to start and debug the server application and open a browser to the url, specified in host and port values in server/config/app.json (most likely https://localhost). Changing any file used by the server requires stop and restart the debugger.