MEAN.TS

MEAN stack development with Angular and Express, both powered by Typescript. This repository was started under Angular 2 and updated to Angular 4.

Prerequisites

• Installing NodeJS version 6.9 or heigher
• Angular is building using @angular/cli.

# install angular-cli via npm
npm install -g @angular/cli

# install server packages via npm
npm install -g nodemon node-inspector rimraf npm-run-all npm-check

How To

• Learning Angular
• Angular style guide
• Learning Typescript
• Learning how to use the really cool pleerock's library routing-controllers which help us creating our express server using typescript annotations.

Quick start

• install MongoDB
• restore MongoDB dump : ./mongodb-dump-00.agz

mongorestore --host localhost --gzip --archive=mongodb-dump-00.agz

# clone the repository
# --depth 1 removes all but one .git commit history
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yraffin/meants-starter.git

# change directory to the repository directory
cd meants-starter

# install the repository dependencies with npm
npm install

# start the server
npm start

go to http://localhost:8080 in your browser

use account admin/admin