ng App Kit

A starting point for angular applications. Both the tool system and boilerplate is inspired by Ember App Kit.

Features

1. Automatic insertion of app scripts into index.html.
2. Configuration data is picked from the config json files and converted to an angular constants module.
3. All js files are linted using jshint.
4. Livereload support.
5. Minification, concatenation of files for deployment.

To use this,

1. Install the dependencies node, bower, grunt and sass.
2. Download the repository.
3. Run npm install on the repo location.
4. Use the below commands to run the application.

This is a boilerplate + cli tool sytstem for angular applications. The cli commands are

 1. grunt 
    
        Will build the application.
 
 2. grunt watch 
    
        Watch changes to the application files and rebuild.
 
 3. grunt dist
   
        Will compile the application in distribution mode and startup a server.
 
 4. grunt server
 
        Will start up a server and run the dev version of the application. Use this along with the `grunt` command for the server to reload automatically based on the changes to the application.

Run these 2 commands on 2 separate terminals during development - grunt, grunt server. These commands will rebuild the application for every change in the application and automatically reload the server.

The folder structure is as the following

- app
  Contains all the application files. Controller, Directives, Services.. etc are put in separate
  files in their respective folders.
  The naming convention of these files are based on the url inside the router.js.
  For filters, the name of the file is its name hyphentated.

- public
   This folder contains all the files that should not be processed such as images, fonts.
   The contents in this folder will be copied and deployed.
   These resources can be assets via '/' inside your application.

To install external dependicies such as Jquery, add the depenedency to bower.json and run the command bower install. The js file to be used in the application should be added to the vendorFiles object inside the grunt/vendor.json file. The css files should be copied into the styles/sass folder and renamed with and _+name of the file.scss. This file should be included into app.scss. The assets that come with the dependency should be added into the public/assets/ folder.

Features, Issues Or Contributions

• Post issues, features requests into the github issue tracker.
• My email is [email protected]
• Pull requests are welcome.
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