Developing an Angular 2 edge Application

This application serves as an example for creating a basic Angular 2 application. The application was built as an example application for the Developing an Angular 2 Edge book.

The repository also contains the server side code.

Features

• Token based authentication
• Authorization
• Simple routing
• Http and web socket communication
• CRUD operations
• "Real time" chat

Requirements

To start the application you need the following installed on your machine:

• Node
• MongoDB

You should also have the following npm libraries installed globally:

• typescript
• tslint
• gulp

Set Up

To build the application run the following command in your console window when in the root of the project:

npm install

This installs all of the application dependencies from npm. Now we need to compile .ts and .styl files. To do this run the following command:

Now you can start the server and database with npm start or if you have a mongo server already running ( if you're running linux or a mac machine this might be the case ), first run npm run build and then npm run server.

You can also run npm run watch to start browser-sync for live reloading and the typescript compiler.

Server

The server for the Angular 2 Edge application is built in node.js and uses mongoDb. Server - Client communication is done primarily via web sockets but the server also provides a couple of HTTP Routes for demonstrational purposes.

HTTP API

The API primarily handles JSON data.

Base Url: localhost:5000