Complete starter seed project for Angular

Clone of angular-webpack-starter except it has following additional features:

1. Meteor Client Side for connecting it with a MeteorJs Server.
2. DDP for connecting Express Angular Universal Server with MeteorJs Server.
3. Implemented a DataService which checks Platform Server/Browser and calls methods appropriately over DDP.
4. Easy to implement Login, Files upload and other features as Meteor's Accounts and Jalik UFS's Client Side is already included in meteor-client.js in node modules.
5. You can implement as many subscriptions as you want on Server using MeteorServer.subscribe('public_collection') in server.aot.ts and then call DataService.getCollection or DataService.getCollectionDataById and you will get cached data from express server upon each initial load. It will not even save many Express to MeteorJs roundtrips but it will even make it faster to load your public pages. Do not forget to implement appropriate methods/pubs with the collectionName in your MeteorJs server.
6. Procfile for heroku included. Review below deployment steps for heroku.

Connecting with MeteorJs Server for both Browser and Express Server

Browser:

Replace url in init.js from https://example-meteorjs-server.com to your meteorjs server ROOT_URL

Server:

Replace ROOT_URL in contants.js like above.

Deployment on Heroku Server

1. Run following command to create a heroku project using Heroku Cli

heroku create 

2. Run following command to push changes to newly added heroku origin

git push heroku master

3. Once build is done successfully run following to open the app in browser:

heroku open

Material Branch with Universal (Server-side rendering) support

Featuring Material Design 2, Webpack (and Webpack DLL plugin for faster dev builds), HMR (Hot Module Replacement), @ngrx for state management and optional server-side rendering with Universal.

You can use npm, but it's recommended to use yarn as it installs a lot faster and has other benefits https://yarnpkg.com/ . Make sure you are using yarn version 0.16.0 or newer (check with 'yarn --version')

git clone https://github.com/ansaries/angular6-express-meteorjs-starter-webpack.git
cd angular-webpack-starter
yarn
yarn start

[Material Branch without Universal (Server-side rendering) support] NO SUPPORT OF METEORJS(https://github.com/qdouble/angular-webpack-starter/tree/no-universal-support)

Bootstrap Branch

Bootstrap and Universal Branch

Minimal Branch

Features

• Angular
  • Async loading
  • Treeshaking
  • AOT (Ahead of Time/ Offline) Compilation
  • AOT safe SASS compilation
• Webpack 4
  • Webpack Dlls (Speeds up devServer builds)
  • @ngTools AOT plugin
• HMR (Hot Module Replacement)
• TypeScript 2
  • @types
• Material Design 2
• Universal (Server-side Rendering)
• @ngrx
  • store (RxJS powered state management for Angular apps, inspired by Redux)
  • effects (Side effect model for @ngrx/store)
  • router-store (Bindings to connect angular/router to ngrx/store)
  • store-devtools (Developer Tools for @ngrx/store)
  • ngrx-store-logger (Advanced console logging for @ngrx/store applications, ported from redux-logger.)
  • ngrx-store-freeze in dev mode (@ngrx/store meta reducer that prevents state from being mutated.)
• Karma/Jasmine testing
• Protractor for E2E testing

Project Goals

• The main goal is to provide an environment where you can have great dev tools and create a production application without worrying about adding a bunch of stuff yourself.
• The goal of your design should be so that you can easily copy and paste your app folder and your constants file into to a new update of this project and have it still work. Use constants and have proper separation to make upgrades easy. If you have any suggestions on areas where this starter can be designed to make updates more easy, file an issue.

Basic scripts

Use yarn start for dev server. Default dev port is 3000.

Use yarn run start:hmr to run dev server in HMR mode.

Use yarn run build for production build.

Use yarn run server:prod for production server and production watch. Default production port is 8088.

Use yarn run universal to run production build in Universal. To run and build universal in AOT mode, use yarn run universal:aot. Default universal port is 8000.

Default ports and option to use proxy backend for dev server can be changed in constants.js file.

To create AOT version, run yarn run build:aot. This will compile and build script. Then you can use yarn run prodserver to see to serve files.

Store Logger

There is also an option to use store-logger which outputs ngrx action history to the console. To set your development mode store logging preference, go to the constant.js file and edit the STORE_DEV_TOOLS constant. Available options are logger | none

HMR (Hot Module Replacement)

HMR mode allows you to update a particular module without reloading the entire application. The current state of your app is also stored in @ngrx/store allowing you to make updates to your code without losing your currently stored state.

AOT Don'ts

The following are some things that will make AOT compile fail.

• Don’t use require statements for your templates or styles, use styleUrls and templateUrls, the angular2-template-loader plugin will change it to require at build time.
• Don’t use default exports.
• Don’t use form.controls.controlName, use form.get(‘controlName’)
• Don’t use control.errors?.someError, use control.hasError(‘someError’)
• Don’t use functions in your providers, routes or declarations, export a function and then reference that function name
• Inputs, Outputs, View or Content Child(ren), Hostbindings, and any field you use from the template or annotate for Angular should be public

Testing

For unit tests, use yarn run test for continuous testing in watch mode and use yarn run test:once for single test. To view code coverage after running test, open coverage/html/index.html in your browser.

For e2e tests, use yarn run e2e. To run unit test and e2e test at the same time, use yarn run ci.

Wiki Links

Recommended Steps for merging this starter into existing project

License

MIT