MEAN-Stack-ContactList

ContactList Application using MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS)

Install Homebrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install MongoDB

Open the Terminal app and type brew update.

After updating Homebrew brew install mongodb

After downloading Mongo, create the “db” directory. This is where the Mongo data files will live. You can create the directory in the default location by running mkdir -p /data/db

Make sure that the /data/db directory has the right permissions by running

sudo chown -R `id -un` /data/db

Enter your password

Run the Mongo daemon, in one of your terminal windows run mongod. This should start the Mongo server.

Run the Mongo shell, with the Mongo daemon running in one terminal, type mongo in another terminal window. This will run the Mongo shell which is an application to access data in MongoDB.

To exit the Mongo shell run quit()

To stop the Mongo daemon hit ctrl-c

Install NodeJS

brew install node

Set path to /users/....../contactlist/

Intall these by typing in the terminal

Initialize npm npm init

Install express npm install express --save

Install mongoose, cors, body-parser npm install mongoose cors body-parser --save

Install nodemon for continuous sync sudo npm install -g --force nodemon

Start the server nodemon

Install Angular

Install Angular CLI sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

Create new Angular App ng new contactlist

Initialize app with required fields after going into the created app : cd contactlist and then npm init

Start the server which should start at http://localhost:4200 ng serve

You are good to go