The curriculum lead-up to the first Back End Project is not very comprehensive. Here are a number of common resources which other campers have found helpful.
- Introduction to Yeoman - Lots of helpful tips and tricks for the Yeoman Angular Fullstack setup
- Angular Generator - Generator used by Yeoman, you can find syntax and what files it creates
APIs
- API for Charting the stock market: https://www.quandl.com/help/api
MEAN Stack Tutorials & Videos
- 5 Part Series on setting up a MEAN stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHV7gOHvNdk - A MEAN tutorial that creates a simple Twitter clone
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/MEAN-Stack-Jump-Start - Clementine is a stripped down MEAN stack, great for learning the fundamentals.
https://johnstonbl01.github.io/clementinejs/tutorials/tutorial-beginner.html - Authentication with Passport for the MEAN stack:
https://vickev.com/#!/article/authentication-in-single-page-applications-node-js-passportjs-angularjs - An amazing list of resources for learning the MEAN stack:
https://github.com/ericdouglas/MEAN-Learning
Scotch IO Tutorials
- https://scotch.io/tutorials/setting-up-a-mean-stack-single-page-application
- https://scotch.io/tutorials/node-and-angular-to-do-app-application-organization-and-structure
Node/Express
Cloud 9 Tricks
Speed up browser reloads
- Open gruntfile.js and edit both instances of
livereload: truetolivereload: false. - Open server/config/express.js and comment out the line
app.use(require('connect-livereload')());