Angular Full Stack Application

The frontend is generated with Angular CLI. The backend is made from scratch. Whole stack in TypeScript.

This project uses the MEAN stack:

• Mongoose.js (MongoDB): database
• Express.js: backend framework
• Angular 2+: frontend framework
• Node.js: runtime environment

Other tools and technologies used:

• Angular CLI: frontend scaffolding
• Bootstrap: layout and styles
• Font Awesome: icons
• JSON Web Token: user authentication
• Angular 2 JWT: JWT helper for Angular 2+
• Bcrypt.js: password encryption

Prerequisites

1. Install Node.js and MongoDB
2. Install Angular CLI: npm i -g @angular/cli
3. From project root folder install all the dependencies: npm i

Run

Development mode

npm run dev: concurrently execute MongoDB, Angular build, TypeScript compiler and Express server.

A window will automatically open at localhost:4200. Angular and Express files are being watched. Any change automatically creates a new bundle, restart Express server and reload your browser.

Production mode

npm run prod: run the project with a production bundle and AOT compilation listening at localhost:3000

Deploy (Heroku)

1. Go to Heroku and create a new app (eg: your-app-name)
2. Install Heroku CLI
3. heroku login
4. mkdir your-app-name && cd your-app-name
5. git init
6. heroku git:remote -a your-app-name
7. Download this repo and copy all files into your-app-name folder
8. npm i
9. Edit package.json as following:
   • add this line to scripts: "postinstall": "tsc -p server && ng build --aot --prod"
   • move the following packages from devDependencies to dependencies: @angular/cli, @angular/compiler-cli, @types/*, chai, chai-http and typescript.
10. Edit .env and replace the MongoDB URI with a real remote MongoDB server. You can create a MongoDB server with Heroku or mLab.
11. git add .
12. git commit -m "Going to Heroku"
13. git push heroku master
14. heroku open and a window will open with your app online

Please open an issue if

• you have any suggestion to improve this project
• you noticed any problem or error

Running tests

Run ng test to execute the frontend unit tests via Karma.

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Run mongod to run an instance of MongoDB then run npm run testbe to execute the backend tests via Mocha.

Running linters

Run ng lint to execute the frontend TS linting via TSLint.

Run npm run lintbe to execute the backend TS linting via TSLint.

Run npm run linthtml to execute the frontend HTML linting via HTMLHint.

Run npm run lintscss to execute the frontend SCSS linting via SASS-Lint.

Further help

To get more help on the angular-cli use ng --help or go check out the Angular-CLI README.