NOTE: If you want to CLONE this EXISTING repository, see cloning.md instead. Otherwise, if you want to build a NEW mean-seed from scratch using the Yeoman Generator, follow these steps below.

1. machine (global / program) installs (if you don't have them already)
   1. install git, nodejs, mongodb, phantomjs
   2. sudo npm install -g grunt-cli yo bower generator-mean-seed yuidocjs forever less
2. yo mean-seed (from the NEW directory you want to create the app in)
   1. npm install && bower install (if not already run successfully by Yeoman or any time package.json or bower.json change)
      1. If any bower issues (sometimes 1 or more packages will timeout), just re-run bower update && bower install
      2. If any npm issues, run npm cache clean (and optionally delete the troublesome package folders from the node_modules folder) then re-run npm install
   2. ./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update (if not already run successfully by Yeoman)
   3. grunt q to build assets (if not already run successfully by Yeoman and any time a *.less (or *.scss) or *.html file changes)
3. start server and view app
   1. node run.js to start node server (make sure MongoDB is already running first)
   2. open a browser to http://localhost:3000/ (or https://localhost:3000/ if using https) to view the site/app
4. run tests
   1. grunt
5. (optional) Git remote (should have already been init'ed and commit'ed automatically)
   1. (optional) add a remote: git remote add origin [url to repository]

• see setup-detailed.md and running.md in the docs folder

You CAN and SHOULD keep your project up to date with the core (seed) generator you used as it goes through version upgrades. Just re-run:

Ensure the generator is up to date:

npm install -g generator-mean-seed

Pull in updates to your project (core/seed - make sure to select the same core you used originally):

yo mean-seed

testing mean stack