Chapter 3. Creating and setting up a MEAN project
This chapter covers
- Managing dependencies by using a package.json file
- Creating and configuring Express projects
- Setting up an MVC environment
- Adding Twitter Bootstrap for layout
- Publishing to a live URL and using Git and Heroku
Now we’re really ready to get underway, and in this chapter we’ll get going on building our application. Remember from chapters 1 and 2 that throughout this book we’re going to build an application called Loc8r. This is going to be a location-aware web application that will display listings near users and invite people to login and leave reviews.
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