somewhereintheword / mean-blog

Blog using Nodejs, Expressjs, Angularjs and Mongodb. MEAN Javascript Fullstack application

Mean Blog

Blog using Nodejs, Expressjs, Angularjs and Mongodb. MEAN Javascript Fullstack application

Features

• Create/Edit/Delete Article
• Passport Authentication for Administration
• Bcrypt Password Hash
• Angular ui router
• textAngular Text-Editor
• Sass

Server Side Dependencies

"bcrypt": "^0.8.4",
"body-parser": "^1.13.2",
"connect-flash": "^0.1.1",
"cookie-parser": "^1.3.5",
"ejs": "^2.3.3",
"express": "^4.13.1",
"express-session": "^1.11.3",
"mongoose": "^4.1.0",
"morgan": "^1.6.1",
"passport": "^0.2.2",
"passport-local": "^1.0.0"

Client Side Dependencies

"textAngular": "~1.4.2",
"bootstrap": "~3.3.5",
"angular": "1.4.3",
"angular-ui-router": "~0.2.15"

Getting Started

Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/DimitriMikadze/Mean-Blog.git

Npm install dependencies

cd server & npm install

Create config.js file in config folder

module.exports = {
    'secret': 'SomeSecretString',
    'database': 'mongodb://localhost/yourdatabasename'
};

Start Mongodb

mongod

Start Server

cd server & node app.js

Create Admin User

uncomment testUser route in app.js

app.use("/", require("./routes"));
app.use("/admin", require("./routes/admin"));
// app.use("/test", require("./routes/testUser"));

Navigate to

/test/create-user/your-name/your-password

this will create admin user with your name and hashed password

User Admin

Navigate to

/login

Insert your newly created name and password

Change Styles

Css is written with Sass, you can update scss files with running

cd client/public & sass --watch scss:css

or if you don't want to use Sass just update

client/public/css/app.css

Grunt Packages

grunt-contrib-concat
grunt-contrib-watch

Start Grunt

Grant will concatenate admin script and css files and watch for changes

cd client
grunt

output will look like this

Running "concat:js" (concat) task
File app/scripts.js created.

Running "concat:css" (concat) task
File public/css/admin/bundle.css created.

Running "watch" task
Waiting...

Contributing

contributions are more than welcome!

License

See license.txt