Angular Webapp Scaffolded by Yeoman

Tour the stack

This might be the stack you are looking for:

• angularjs
• twitter-bootstrap
• nodejs express with socket.io
• testacular

It deploys on cloudfoundry.

Setup and Development

• Tests: grunt express-test
• Run in dev mode: grunt express-server
• Run in production mode: grunt build && node app

How was this project generated?

I am glad you ask: with yeoman.

Yeoman, the doc is fantastic but it is a beta:

"Expect nothing to work."

Here is what worked today: March 11th 2013 around noon Singapore time.

Note: one can take the project as a seed and get going.

Setting up yeoman:

• Install the latest yeoman with the audit script: curl -L get.yeoman.io | bash (https://github.com/yeoman/yeoman/wiki/Manual-Install)
• Install everything the audit script tells you.

Scaffolding angular with twitter-bootstrap

• Make a package.json file: npm init.
• Add the latest generators for angular and testacular:

  devDependencies: {
      "generator-angular": "*",
      "generator-testacular": "*"
  }

Now continue with the Getting-Started Documentatin of Yeoman:

yo angular --minsafe

Opt out of RequireJS: at the time of this writing that would break testacular. Opt in of everything else. Including Twitter-Bootstrap's SaaS flavor.

Ok ready to test run all this:

grunt server

Will open the browser on port 9000

Now run the testacular tests.

grunt test

Step 2: Scaffold express

Yeoman will serve the files with a naive static setup of nodejs's express. We want express instead. Luckily other people got started in that direction (Thanks https://github.com/blai/grunt-express).

Add to package.json my fork of that project. "grunt-express": "git://github.com/blai/grunt-express.git"

Add grunt by doing something along those lines: https://github.com/blai/grunt-express-example

Step 3: Push to Cloudfoundry

TODO: add a manifest.yml template and a grunt task. For now: vmc push