MEAN Sorta Simple Start

Yeoman AngularJs Full Stack generator provides:

Express server integrated with grunt tasks
Livereload of client and server files
Support for Jade and CoffeeScript
Easy deployment workflow.
Optional MongoDB integration
Optional Passport integration for adding user accounts

Then modified to create a base project for:

MEAN stack starter project, customized for family launch page.
Based on the bootstrap 3.0 carousel example.
Added to mongoose api that connects to mongo for some example data viz.

After cloning, assuming you have the tools downloaded as outlined on http://mean.io, run the following.

Download the npm packages:

npm install

Download the bower libraries:

bower install

For more details refer to the AngularJs Full Stack generator docs:

https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack/

To Run

Start monogo: mongod &

To start in dev mode: grunt serve

To start in production/minified mode: grunt serve:dist

For prod when using start.sh, run the above command first and then cancel out of... something up with build...

To run as a daemon using node package forever

Install forever: npm install forever

To start as daemon on port 80 (as root), build with grunt, then run: ./start.sh

Stop daemon: ./stop.sh

Trying out forever-service, so that the app starts after system restart, pretty cool! Now working on getting shippable to build and deploy automatically.