LinkedIn Lite - Mid-term project

Getting Started

To get you started you can simply clone the repository and install the dependencies:

Prerequisites

You need git to clone the repository. You can get git from http://git-scm.com/.

We also use a number of node.js tools to initialize and test the app. You must have node.js and its package manager (npm) installed. You can get them from http://nodejs.org/.

Clone project

Clone the project repository using [git][git]:

git clone https://github.com/NPKe/linkedin-mid-term-project
cd linkedin-mid-term-project

Install Dependencies

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 need
app/bower_components - contains the angular framework files

Note that the bower_components folder would normally be installed in the root folder but here we changes this location through the .bowerrc file. Putting it in the app folder makes it easier to serve the files by a webserver.

Run the Application

We have preconfigured the project with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:

npm start