This is a small sample application for reading Github repositories implemented in AngularJS.
The application is based on angular-seed, an AngularJS skeleton containing everything to start a project from scratch.
To get you started you can simply clone the angular-seed repository and install the dependencies:
Checkout this repository using git.
You must also have node.js and its package manager (npm) installed. You can get them from http://nodejs.org/.
The project inherited two kinds of dependencies from the angular-seed skeleton: tools and angular framework code. The tools help us manage and test (not implemented) the application.
- We get the tools we depend upon via
npm, the node package manager. - We get the angular code via
bower, a client-side code package manager.
The guys from angular.seed 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 needapp/bower_components- contains the angular framework files
Note that the bower_components 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.
The project is orecinfigured with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:
npm start
Now browse to the app at http://localhost:8000/app.