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Building a MEAN App Overview

2:35 with Huston Hedinger and Ken Howard

Go over the details of the Application you will build in this course.

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    In this course you'll learn how to build a to do application using the MEAN Stack.

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    As you've already learned, a MEAN Application is made up of MongoDB for

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    the data storage, Express.js for server side routing, AngularJS for

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    you client side application, and Node.js.

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    You'll need to have Node and Mongo installed on your machine.

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    We won't cover installation in this course, but you'll find instructions for

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    installing tools in the teachers notes.

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    In this course we'll be building our application from scratch, but

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    you might consider using the mean.js generator to jumpstart a future project.

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    The mean.js generator uses yeomen to create basic application

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    using the mean stack.

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    You can find a link to the mean.js project on GitHub on the teacher's notes.

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    With the generator, you can scaffold the new project with a single command.

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    You'll notice that this generated a lot of directories and files.

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    You'll go on to to review this code before using the main JS generator

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    in your projects.

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    And remember,

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    the yo command that we used to set up this project comes from Yeoman,and Yeoman

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    is a tool that can be used to generate practically any type of project.

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    You need to have the MEAN.js generator installed on your machine

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    before you can run yo.MEAN.js.

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    One thing to keep in mind is that we could use the MEAN.js generator in this course.

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    However, it might seem complicated if you are new to developing mean apps.

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    Building our application from scratch will help us learn the ins and

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    outs of mean more effectively.

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    Additionally, we'll start out with a to-do list app that was already built

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    in angular.

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    In this course, the first thing we'll do is clone the angular to do list app

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    from GitHub onto our machine.

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    Next we'll set up express and configure it to serve static assets so

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    that our Angular application will load into the browser.

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    Once we've got Express and Angular up and running,

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    we'll create a database connection and set up a schema with Mongoose.

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    After that, we'll configure Express in Angular, so

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    we can create and edit our to dos.

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    At that point, you'll have a fully functioning MEAN stack application.

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    Let's get started.

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