MEAN Starter App

Getting started with your next project can be tricky and time consuming. The objective of this Starter App is to reduce the time and effort it takes to set up a base application for your next project. I'd like to call it a "Micro Framework".

What's included ?

• Local authentication - Authenticate users statelessly using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• Social authentication - Authenticate users via Facebook, Twitter or Google with Passport.js
• Password recovery / reset
• Database models - Pre-built Mongoose schema, easy to extend. Read more about Mongoose
• Emails - Templated e-mails with MailGun API service support
• Heroku-ready - Ready to be deployed to Heroku

How to install ?

1. Install Node.js to your computer

2. Clone the starter app to your desktop using clone command:

git clone https://github.com/BCooperA/mean-skeleton.git

3. Download and install MongoDB to your desktop

4. After installing MongoDB, create a new database (TEST_DB) for our application

> use YOUR_DATABASE_NAME

5. Create a .env file from .env.example and add environment variables

6. Install required dependencies for the application

npm install

7. Run application

node server

Directory structure

Files

• .env.example - Sample file for applications environment variables
• Gulpfile.js - For automating painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow
• Procfile - Specifies the commands that are executed by the app’s dynos in Heroku
• server.js - Entrypoint for running and binding API

Folders

• app/ - Frontend of the application, developed with AngularJS
• config/ - Configuration files
• middleware/ - Application middleware files
• models/ - Schema files, buit with Mongoose
• public/ - Static files (img, js, css)
• routes/ - Route files for the application