Install Dependencies

We have two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools, database and angular framework code. The tools help us manage and test the application.

• We get the tools we depend upon via npm, the [node package manager][npm].
• We get the angular code via bower, a [client-side code package manager][bower].

We have preconfigured npm to automatically run bower so we can simply do:

npm install

Behind the scenes this will also call bower install. You should find that you have two new folders in your project.

• node_modules - contains the npm packages for the tools we need for the server
• public/assets - contains the all bower packages for the tools we need for the application

Note that the assets folder would normally be installed in the root folder but angular-seed changes this location through the .bowerrc file. Putting it in the app folder makes it easier to serve the files by a webserver.

Settings & configuration

• Add settings.js file in the root using the example as a template
• Add [config.js] (public/app/config_example.js) in public/app and include your MapboxGL access token

Authentication

• GitHub authentication is turned off by default. To enable this feature, set the authentication property in the settings file to true. This feature also requires your GitHub clientId, clientSecret, and callbackURL. By default, the callbackURL points to the our local port, 4000, also configurable in settings.js. With this feature turned on, users are required to login into GitHub to enter the map application

Serve & Build the application & watch for changes

• grunt build watch
• node server.js

The app is now running @ http://127.0.0.1:4000 !!!!