Getting involved!

First steps to use intrepid

First of thing is configure your enviroment to run intrepid Hello world!. You need to install few fools need the following packages:

sudo apt-get install nodejs npm redis-server mongodb

Now we need to get all intrepidjs dependencies. We install intrepidjs-cli ultility via npm:

npm update &&  sudo npm install -g intrepidjs-cli

Now we have all we need to start. We need to create the folder for our new intrepidjs project.

We will use intrepidjs-init for it. There is an utility that clones the repo, gets last version of code and do many magic things for us. The intrepidjs-init command creates a new folder to the project. If we don't use a param for the command, default name for the folder will be intrepidjs.

mkdir intrepidjs && cd intrepidjs
intrepidjs-init myApp

When it complete successfully, the message Express server listening on port 8000 will be shown. Open your browser and go to:

http://localhost:8000

Now you can register a new user and preview basic intrepidjs features. If you want to know what we have, read the next point: What does intrepidjs provide?

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What does intrepidjs provide?

If you are reading this it's because you're dying to know how intrepidjs can helps you to create your MEAN web app.

TODO: explain core features here: chat, users managemenet, etc.

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Create your first module

Intrepidjs helps you to develop nodejs applications. To show you, we are going to create our first module. To do that, run in intrepidjs repo root folder:

./make.js createmodule  FirstIntrepidJsModule

That CLI tool create several stuff need to create your first module. That utily create following elements in modules/FirstIntrepidJsModule: app.js settings.js data/ middlewares/ public/ routes/ views/