The development environment for this app requires the following tools be installed:

• NodeJS >= 0.10 (latest stable preferred)
• npm (should be bundled with node)
• Gulp (sudo npm install -g gulp)
• Bower (sudo npm install -g bower)
• nodemon (sudo npm install -g nodemon)
• node-dev (sudo npm install -g node-dev)

To get started with development, first clone this repository and install the dependencies:

$ git clone [email protected]:davidjamesherzog/contacts.git
$ npm install
$ bower install

When ready to actively develop:

$ gulp serve-dev

This command builds the client app for development, then serves it up in your browser via Browser Sync at http://localhost:3000. Changes made will automatically be served up by Browser Sync. If you do not want Browser Sync to run, use the nosync parameter:

$ gulp serve-dev --nosync

The app will be served up at http://localhost:8001.

Should you want watchers to run so that the app will auto test every time you save a file, simply run:

$ gulp autotest

The full test suite can be run with:

$ gulp test

While developing, you can continuously test the code you are editing by running:

$ gulp autotest

For easier debugging while testing, you can run the spec runner in your browser by running:

$ gulp serve-specs

Builds the client application. Build results are output to build/.

Runs the full application test suite. Test results are output to the console, and a test coverage report is output to report/.

Watches the filesystem for changes and rebuilds parts of the application as needed, running the test suite once the rebuild completes.