#Testing Your Angular App

A sample project for demonstrating how to test an Angular app.

##Getting Started

Fork the repo in GitHub, clone the fork down to your local machine, and install the dependencies.

git clone <Git URL of your fork>
cd <directory of the repo you just cloned>
npm install

To preview the app, build the app and start the server task:

gulp

Then, vist http://localhost:9999 in a browser.

##Local development

The source files are in the app/ folder. Make changes to the files in that folder.

As part of the default Gulp task, a watch and a livereload task run, so you can see changes you make to the source files instantly.

##Deploying the app

To deploy a production version of the app to a remote server, you can build the app and then copy the minified version of the app in the dist/ folder to a server.

(Every time you run gulp, a minified version will exist in the dist/ folder.)

You can make a new dist/ folder, without running the local server, with this command:

gulp build

The build task also starts a local server on a different port. You can preview the production version by visting http://localhost:9999 in a browser.

If you want to remove an old build, without creating a new one yet, just run:

gulp clean

##Credits

To bootstrap this prototype, I followed a tutorial by Michael Herman (@mjhea0), Kickstarting Angular With Gulp and Browserify, Part 1 - Gulp and Bower.

I swapped out Michael's use of ngRoute with AngularUI Router.

I also changed the dependency injection method to the one described by Brian Angelo in Quick Guide to Angular Best Practices.