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Skill-Up 2015 East Lansing

Skill Up 2015 - East Lansing

This workshop was created by Rich McLaughlin and Kevin McGinty for Vertafore Skill-Up 2015 East Lansing

JavaScript Lightweight Applications
Session #1 - Wed July 8, 2015
Session #2 - Fri July 10, 2015

Instructions

• Install NodeJS
  • This will include npm
• Download git to use the CLI
  • Or use the GitHub client for Mac / Windows
• Clone this repository
  • git clone https://github.com/RichMcL/skill-up-2015 -- downloads to working directory
  • Or download and extract the ZIP
  • Or if you installed the GitHub client you can click the "Clone in Desktop" button on the right side of the repo.
• Run npm install from the root of the project
  • Optional - Run npm install -g nodemon to install nodemon
  • Watches for changes to automatically restart server
• Run node server without nodemon
  • Optional - Run nodemon server.js instead if you installed nodemon
• Visit http://localhost:8080/ in the browser

Solutions

• To clone down the solution branch run
  git clone -b answers https://github.com/RichMcL/skill-up-2015.git skill-up-2015-answers

Notes

• Windows users may have to update their path environment setting
• Windows XP- %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\npm\node_modules
• Windows 7- %AppData%\npm\node_modules
• Or wherever npm ends up installing the modules on your machine