Sample-app is a MEAN based wanna-be-simplest generic web application, to be used as a starting point to create specific applications.
MEAN stands for MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js.
1 - Get node and mongo installed. Check the links above if needed.
2 - Install the project
$ path\to\app\root>npm install
1 - Don't forget to start your mongo server
$ path\to\mongo\bin>mongod
2 - Start your node server
$ path\to\app\root>node server
3 - Open a browser and go to
We use node-inspector.
1 - Get it
$ wherever>npm install -g node-inspector
2 - Start a debugger instance :
$ wherever>node-inspector
You will be able access the debugger at http://127.0.0.1:8080/?ws=localhost:8080&port=5858, and it will try to connect by default to port 5858 (so at first it will not get hooked to anything, that's normal)
3 - Start your application in debug mode
$ path\to\app\root>node --debug server
This will listen by default to port 5858, so if you open http://127.0.0.1:3000, you'll get the app, and if you refresh http://127.0.0.1:8080/?ws=localhost:8080&port=5858, hopefully your debugger will have connected to your node server. Now you can debug !
You can do that by using Chrome DevTools.
We recommend Robomongo. It's a nice mongo client GUI.
We use Protractor. It's an end to end test framework for AngularJS applications, based on Selenium and built on top of WebDriverJS.
1 - Get it
$ wherever>npm install -g protractor
$ wherever>webdriver-manager update --standalone
2 - Start your node server
See above.
3 - Start your webdriver
$ path\to\app\root\test>webdriver-manager start
Also note that you need java to use that.
4 - Launch the tests suite
$ path\to\app\root\test>protractor todo-spec.js
5 - Write more tests
Take examples in todo-spec.js.