Preparing your Windows box for AWS and a MEAN (Node) website: Install NPM libraries
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I walk through step by step how to get the Node.JS MEAN.JS scaffolded site working on a Windows 10 machine. This section is about installing the NPM global libraries needed for our application.
Go to parent article — Build a robust MEAN website in under an hour for less than $1/day — part 1
Go to previous article —Preparing your Windows box for AWS and a MEAN (Node) website: Install AWS-CLI tools
If you already have the global libraries installed for grunt, bower, aws-cli, yo and generator-meanjs then go to the next article — Preparing your Windows box for AWS and a MEAN (Node) website: Setup your mean.js website
Install the global npm packages for grunt-cli, bower, aws-cli, yo and generator-meanjs
Open your handy Git Bash window.
In this short section it doesn’t matter which directory we’re in (no cd’s needed)
We’re going to install some global libraries through the Node Package Manager. This means these packages will be available to us from any project we’re working in, sort of like how we can node and npm from any directory on your computer.
There’s not much to it, run each of these statements in the Git Bash window. The “-g” stands for global.
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install -g bower
npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-meanjs
npm install -g aws-cliThe results of each line will look something like this for each command.
After you’ve run the five installs, we’re now finally ready to lay down some code. :)
Go to parent article — Build a robust MEAN website in under an hour for less than $1/day — part 1
Go to previous article — Preparing your Windows box for AWS and a MEAN (Node) website: Install AWS-CLI tools
Go to next article — Preparing your Windows box for AWS and a MEAN (Node) website: Setup your mean.js website
