Getting Started with Windows

Setting up the Node.js App

• Install Node.js
• Install Git for Windows
  • Choose the defaults EXCEPT:
    • Choose to use a TrueType font in all Windows console
    • choose to "use Git from the Windows Command Prompt", otherwise the provision scripts will fail.
    • choose to use the Windows default console
• Run powershell as an Administrator (Start, type, "powershell", right-click, "run as administrator")
• Navigate to a directory where you want to clone the project (i.e. D:, mkdir dev, cd dev).
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/losandes/Heinz95729.git
• Make sure your powershell execution policy allows running scripts
  • $currentPolicy = Get-ExecutionPolicy
  • echo $currentPolicy
  • Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
  • When you're done with the rest of the steps in this tutorial, you can reset your execution policy (which is probably: restricted): Set-ExecutionPolicy $currentPolicy
• Navigate to the provision scripts: cd Heinz95729\provision\windows
• Review the provision-* scripts, and comment out any applications that you already have installed
• Execute the first provision script: ./provision-1
• Run Powershell as Administrator
• Navigate to the directory where "provision-2.ps1" is
• Execute the second provision script: ./provision-2
• Run Powershell as Administrator
• Execute the third provision script: ./provision-3
• Install Mongo Management Studio
• Open cmder from your start menu, and open 2 cmd tabs
• In the first one, type mongod, to start mongo
• In the second one, navigate to [YOUR PATH HERE]\Heinz95729\node
• Install the build dependencies: npm install
• Check out what grunt can do: grunt or grunt help
• Install the app dependencies: grunt install
  • If grunt install fails because it cannot find powershell, and you don't want to figure out how to get powershell to be available in your PATH, you can manually install the packages:
    • Navigate to /node/web and run npm install from the command line
    • Navigate to /node/web/public/scripts/lib and run bower install from the command line
• Seed the database: grunt seed
• Run the app: grunt start
• In a browser, navigate to http://localhost:3000/

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