Angular Gulp Boilerplate

Quickly start your angularJS project, develope with flexibility using dev command line tools and build a deploy version with source minification.

Installing on local machine

Please make sure you have node.js installed on your machine

If you don't have, click here

1. Check if you have it installed or not,

npm -v

and,

node -v

you should see some version info in return.

2. Install global packages

run on any directory,

npm install -g gulp-cli node-gyp

in case of mac or linux, you might need to mention "sudo"

3. Now go to the directory where you want to place the project files using git bash

(terminal for mac or linux) run the command,

git clone URL

here URL is the http url you get from the repository page, Click here to clone

4. now navigate to the project directory with cmd (terminal for mac or linux)

run the command,

npm install

wait for it to be completed. It usually takes 5-10 minutes to complete. It will download all the dependencies, build the project and serve the build on browser.

Using the gulp commands

1. Serve the source

File watching enabled (Development Mode)

gulp

You should see the browser window opening address http://localhost:3000 (opens another port if unavailable).

If you want to serve the source without watching file changes (Source Testing Mode), run this,

gulp serveSource

2. Build the source

Build the source code into ./_build (Deployment Mode)

gulp build

Warning: It will delete previous build !!!

3. Serve the build

Serve the ./_build/ without watching file changes (Build Testing Mode)

gulp serveBuild

you should see the browser window opening address http://localhost:3000 (opens another port if unavailable).