mean-starter-kit

Starter kit (seed) for MEAN stack applications - MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, NodeJS with Gulp

Features

Client:

• AngularJS
• AngularJS UI Router
• John Papa's Angular styleguide
• Bootstrap
• angular-translate (i18n)
• Preconfigure i18n translations, with loading locale from the browser language.
• And more... See bower_components file.

Server:

• Express
• node-config
• CORS
• Mongoose
• CRUD exemple
• And more... See package.json file.

Tests:

• Mocha Tests
• Istanbul code coverage
• Supertest

Build:

• Gulp 4 include various gulp plugins
• Browsersync with livereload for client
• Nodemon with livereload for server
• Lint code with eslint (help enforce a uniform coding style)
• Cache control with gulp-rev
• Run mocha tests with code coverage
• Application distribution build (dist folder)
• travis.yml
• And more... See gulpfile.js and gulp-tasks folder

Docker:

• DockerFile with node 4 official image
• docker-compose.yml version 2 with official MongoDb and Nginx images
• Nginx configuration with caching

Coming soon:

• e2e tests with protractor
• ...

AngularJS best practices used

• $httpProvider.useApplyAsync(true)
• $compileProvider.debugInfoEnabled(false)
• Avoid FOUC - Flash of untranslated content with angular-translate by adding translate-cloak directive. See commit.

Prerequisites

• MongoDB - Download and Install MongoDB - If you plan on scaffolding your project with mongoose, you'll need mongoDB to be installed and have the mongod process running.

Getting Started

• Install: npm install and bower install
• Run: npm start or if you have Gulp 4 on your environnement, just run: gulp
• Run tests: npm test or if you have Gulp 4 on your environnement, just run: gulp test
• Build dist: npm dist

Contribute

When submitting a PR, make sure that the commit messages match the AngularJS conventions.