project-gaston-elhordoy

Introduction

I wrote this project using Yeoman and a Community-driven generator called Angular Fullstack.

As specified by the generator's documentation, it is based on the javascript fullstack known as MEAN (MongoDB, Expres.js, Angular.js and Node.js), using a single programming language end-to-end.

Requirements

For executing this application you will need to have the following software installed (find more details on how to install them in each link):

• Node.js
• Grunt
• Bower

After installing them, please run the following two commands at the project's root directory: npm install and bower install

Running the application

Just issue the following command in a console at the project's root directory: node server.js Open a web browser pointing to http://localhost:3000/

Persistence

Instead of requiring the installation of a MongoDB instance, I choose to use mongolab, a MongoDB-as-a-service.

To connect to the MongoDB instance using the shell you can run

    mongo ds033469.mongolab.com:33469/project-gaston-elhordoy -u <dbuser> -p <dbpassword>

where and should be replaced by appropiate values:

    mongo ds033469.mongolab.com:33469/project-gaston-elhordoy -u project-gaston-elhordoy -p project-gaston-elhordoy-1234

Further improvements

• Lazy loading scripts.
• Open reports in a new window with printing styles and automatically open the print dialog for the report page.
• Create another summarized report to try out Mongo's aggregate framework.
• Better manipulation of alerts.
• Automaticaly close alerts (with $timeout probably).
• Use custom modal windows to avoid browser blocking mechanism.