We have two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools and angular framework code. The tools help us manage and test the application.
- We get the tools we depend upon via
npm, the [node package manager][npm]. - We get the angular code via
bower, a [client-side code package manager][bower].
We have preconfigured npm to automatically run bower so we can simply do:
npm install
Behind the scenes this will also call bower install. You should find that you have two new
folders in your project.
node_modules- contains the npm packages for the tools we needapp/bower_components- contains the angular framework files
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.
We have preconfigured the project with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:
npm start
Now browse to the app at http://localhost:8000/index.html.