Edinbros

A social marketplace for services in your neighbourhood. Made during the hackathon CodeTheCity 4 in Edinbourgh, Scotland.

Stack

• Node.js/Express as a RESTful API
• MongoDB as the database
• AngularJS for the frontend
• Material Angular as CSS framework
• Socket.io for real-time communications
• JWT for authentication

##Running the frontend

1. Go into the /frontend folder, using your favorite command line tool.
2. In your command line, execute bower install and npm install to install all the necessary dependencies.
3. In your command line, execute grunt serve to start the frontend
4. Go to http://localhost:9000/ to access the frontend

##Running the backend

1. Install Node.js and the nodemon library (npm install -g nodemon)
2. Run MongoDB and change the values in config/settings.js according to your database settings.
3. In your command line, execute npm install to install all the necessary dependencies.
4. In your command line, execute nodemon app.js to run application
5. Go to [http://localhost:3000/api/{whatever api endpoint}](http://localhost:3000/api/{whatever api endpoint}) to access the backend