Web-based brewing software based off of the MEAN stack.

This is the basic MEAN setup from the PluralSight course. It uses the following components:

• Node
• Express
• Mongo DB
• Angular
• Jade - HTML rendering engine
• Stylus - CSS pre-compilation engine

To install and run

• Install Node and npm and make sure it is added to your PATH (installer usually takes care of this)
• Install MongoDB and have it running -> Startup the MongoDB shell and type the following to get a DB and insert a message: -> use basicMean -> db.messages.insert({"message": "Hello MONGO!"});
• Install git (required for bower, it uses git to retrieve the files)
• Install Bower globally (Bower is like npm but for client-side scripts like angular) -> npm install -g bower
• Install Jade and Stylus globally (not necessary as it will be installed locally, but WebStorm IDE needs it global to add a watcher) -> npm install -g jade -> npm install -g stylus
• use a command prompt, navigate to this directory and run -> npm install -> bower install This uses the package.json and bower.json files to retrieve dependencies and install them locally

To run -> node server.js

handy tool is nodemon. This will monitor the project for any changes and restart node automatically -> npm install -g nodemon

Then instead call nodemon instead of standard node ->nodemon server.js