Getting Started with Windows

These instructions are for setting up the node.js project on Windows. To set up the .NET project, follow the videos and instructions provided in the course.

• 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
• 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\build
• Install the build dependencies: npm install
• Install the app dependencies: grunt install
• Seed the database: grunt seed
• Run the app: grunt
• In a browser, navigate to http://localhost:3000/