Bare-bones Angular Full-stack Application

By John Bower

@beclamide

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Setting up the template

Install the NPM modules and Bower components by opening a terminal window and running:

$ npm install

$ bower install

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Running the app

To start the application, install grunt-cli and run:

$ grunt serve

Grunt will watch files for changes and automatically run JSHint on recently edited files, and Karma / E2E tests on the server and client.

To start the tests manually, run:

$ grunt test

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Building the app

To prepare the app for deployment run:

$ grunt build

Grunt will run a number of tasks that optimize the site, ready for deployment to the production server.

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Deploying the app

To deploy to Heroku, set the Heroku git repo address in the Gruntfile and run:

$ grunt buildcontrol:heroku