Angular Gulp Boilerplate

Quickly start your angularJS project, develope with flexibility using dev command line tools and build a deploy version with source minification.

Installing on local machine

Please make sure you have node.js installed on your machine

If you don't have, click here...

1. check if you have it installed or not,

npm -v

and,

node -v

you should see some version info in return.

2. install global packages(run on any directory)

npm install -g gulp node-gyp

in case of mac or linux, you might need to mention "sudo"

3. now go to the directory where you want to place the project files using git bash (terminal for mac or linux)
run the command

git clone URL

here URL is the http url you get from the repository page, Click here to clone

4. now navigate to the project directory with cmd (terminal for mac or linux)
run the command

npm install

wait for it to be completed. It usually takes 5-10 minutes to complete.
It will download all the dependencies, build the project and serve the build on browser

Using the gulp commands

1. Serve from source (./) with watch (Development Mode)

gulp

you should see the browser window opening address http://localhost:3000 (opens another port if unavailable)

2. Build the source (Deployment Mode)

gulp build

it will delete previous build !!!
build files will be saved under ./_build directory

3. Serve from source (./) without watch (Source Testing Mode)

gulp server

you should see the browser window opening address http://localhost:3000 (opens another port if unavailable)

4. Serve from build (./_build/) without watch (Build Testing Mode)

gulp server-build

you should see the browser window opening address http://localhost:3000 (opens another port if unavailable)

Developer Hint

Please change your editor configuration like below before you start development

Indent character: "\t" (tab)

Indent size: 2

Line endings: LF (unix)

See the live demo here