AngularJS and Node.js good practices

This project should serve as a reference for writing web application on top of Node.js and Angular.js.

It is built on top of AngularJS 1.2.9, Node.js 0.10.24, Redis and MongoDB 2.4.7.

Concepts

Currently Implemented

• Build Infrastructure
• Application Skeleton

TBD

• User Authentication and Authorization
• File Uploads
• ...

Installation

Download Node.js from here: http://nodejs.org/ or install Node.js through a packet manager if you're using a Linux distribution. See the following Wiki page for more information: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager

Additionally, you'll need MongoDB and Redis.

Clone the repository

# git clone https://github.com/ToastShaman/angularjs-nodejs-app.git

and run

# npm install -g bower grunt grunt-cli

# npm install

Starting the Node.js Server

Run the default Grunt task to compile the CSS and minify the resources:

# grunt

After you've made sure that your MongoDB and Redis instance is running you can start the Node.js server by entering:

# node server.js

You can now see the application running under the following url: http://localhost:3000

Passing Environment Variables to the Node.js Server

If you want to start the server on a different port you can do that by passing environment variables to the Node command

# PORT=5000 node server.js

Running the Tests

To run the tests, simply run the Grunt test task like so:

# grunt test

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Contributors

Many thanks go to the following who have contributed to making this even better:

• @nmoorcroft

License

angularjs-nodejs-app

• Freely distributable and licensed under the MIT license.