

See the npm grunt-cli package for more info. Grunt-cli - This is required so that we can run Grunt tasks from the CLI. We use NPM for server side node.js modules and Bower manages front-end packages like angular, jquery etc. NPM will already be installed as part of Node.js.īower - A package manager for the web. It’s possible to search fir and download many 3rd party libraries to use via NPM. NPM is a package manager like Nuget, Macports, Ruby Gems etc. Once Node.js and MongoDB are installed we need some packages via the NPM Package Manager. The locations differ based on the platform. The key part is that a folder \data\db needs to be created. Mac Users: See the MongoDB OXS installation docs.Windows Users: See the MongoDB Windows installation docs.The Database installation required some extra configuration: If you hit any errors during the installation process, please double check the node version you are running.
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Please see the following link for details of how to switch node runtime versions. IMPORTANT: this tutorial is only supported with Node.js version 0.12.0.

If you don’t already have GIT installed, you will need it: Meanjs is useful for this tutorial since it provides an app structure and has its own templates for scaffolding components. In it’s own words it’s an Open-Source Full-Stack Solution For MEAN Applications. We’re going to make use of a MEAN stack template from to get up and running. This is Part 1 of a 5 part Mean Stack Tutorial.
