Backend is a Sails.js application without frontend. See more info at http://sailsjs.org/ I have just done some small tweaks to generic workflow of sails nothing else. Basically this only serves an API and user authentication services - nothing else. So the main difference withing sails normal workflow is that sails isn't serving any "views", backend serves only JSON and nothing else.

This backend code is part of angular-sailsjs-boilerplate project.

First of all you have to install npm, node.js / io.js and sails to your box. Installation instructions can be found here.

After that make sure that you have all necessary components installed by running following commands in your shell:

npm --version
node --version
sails --version

And after that you can run actual backend install by following command in source root folder:

npm install

Backend needs some configurations before you can actually run it properly. Although you can skip this section if you want to, in this case sails will use its defaults to run application.

There is an example of backend configuration file on following path:

/config/local_example.js

Just copy this file to /config/local.js and make necessary changes to it. Note that this local.js file is in .gitignore so it won't go to VCS at any point.

You can start this backend application as the same way as any sails / node application. This can be done by following commands:

sails lift

OR

node app.js

This will start sails.js server on defined port. By default this is accessible from http://localhost:1337 url. If you try that with your browser you should only see page that contains Not Found message on it. This means that everything is ok.

Below is small list of possible failures that can occur while trying this.

1. Sails won't lift and you get error message like: Fatal error: watch ENOSPC
   • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16748737/grunt-watch-error-waiting-fatal-error-watch-enospc
   • tl;dr just run npm dedupe

And if you have some problems, please add solutions to this list...

Tarmo Leppänen

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