This is a basic MEAN stack setup using Vagrant. There are a million ways out there to do this, this is going to try and do it as cleanly as possible.

Directory structure

angry-hobo: project root
  - bin: binaries directory containing www startup script
  - cookbooks: Contains all Vagrant cookbooks
  - node_modules: NodeJS modules directory
  - public: All public facing files, ie js, styles and images
  - routes: ExpressJS's route definitions
  - views: all ejs views

The Vagrantfile contains all the configurations for you machine, Vagrant needs this.

The app.js is the entrypoint into the NodeJS application.

Run vagrant up to run the vagrant provision.

Add the following line to your hosts file:

192.168.123.123 angry-hobo.local

SSH into the Vagrant VM with vagrant ssh and then run the application by changing into the /home/vagrant/workspace/angry-hobo/bin/ directory with cd ~/workspace/angry-hobo/bin and running:

DEBUG=angry-hobo && sudo ./www (Replacing 'angry-hobo' with your project's name)

You can reach me at [email protected] with questions and comments :)