contacts

Workin app visible at http://tuuling.github.io/contacts

Working on application locally

prerequisites

• have node.js with npm installed
• have grunt-cli installed

Step 1

Download the project from github

Step 1

Install npm modules in the project directory with npm install

Step 2

The app comes with a basic webserver that can serve the files. You can run the app with node app.js And access it from localhost:3000

Step 3

Start the watcher that compiles .coffee script files to .js files with grunt watch

Step 4

Run unit tests with the grunt test command

Tools and frameworks used

• AngularJS as the main framework for the webapp
• Bootstrap for css styles and layout
• Angular UI $modal service for displaying overlays
• Express to serve static files
• Grunt as the JS task runner for compiling coffeescript files and running tests
• Karma as the test runner
• Jasmine JS test framework

File structure

• /public includes the all the static files needed to run the app in the browser
• /src includes the coffeescript source file(s)
• /test/unit includes the unit tests
• /app.js basic express app to serve static files
• /Gruntfile.js Config file for Grunt task runner
• /karma.conf.js Config file for Karma test runner
• /package.conf.js NPM conf file that lists the node.js depencies for the app