Make sure you have node, npm, ruby, bower, and gulp installed on your machine.
When building the project for the very first time, run the following command
npm installbower install
To execute a full build of the project, execute the following command
gulp or gulp build
To run the project, execute the following command
gulp serve
To run the project in production mode (i.e. running against the files within the dist folder), execute the following command
gulp serve:dist
This project comes packaged with a file app.js that will run a server against the dist folder. This is defined within the package.json and will be executed if this entire project is deployed to Azure or AWS.