MEAN RSVP

A simple application built with the MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS) stack to collect RSVPs for my wedding.

Tools

In order to build/run this application, it is assumed that you have the following tools installed on your system:

• MongoDB
• NodeJS
• NPM
• Bower

Instructions

Install dependencies

This project depends on supporting packages provided by NPM and Bower. Install those libraries:

npm update
npm install
bower update

Start Mongo

On a Mac, using MongoDB installed through Homebrew:

mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

Configure App->DB Connection

The application uses environment variables to configure connections to dependencies like MongoDB for storing data.
Simply set the DB_URL environment variable before starting the application:

export DB_URL=mongodb://localhost/news

Start the application

npm start