sean

SEAN is an full-stack javascript open-source framework based on SQL (Sequelize Express Angular and Node). It provides everything needed to build applications with Sequilize, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS. This project found it's root on MEANJS project.

This is a great tool that we love to use, but as we need a relational database for some of our projects, we decided to make our own fork using Sequelize and Postgres instead of Mongo db.

The idea is to solve the common issues with connecting those frameworks, build a robust framework to support daily development needs, and help developers use better practices while working with popular JavaScript components.

But That's not all SEAN natively implement web-token authentication and ACL based authorization both on Front and Backend as well as Socket.io. Winston logger is as well implemented to kepp track with what is going on in your app. Simply use the logger class from anywhere in your app to get nice formatted output. you can redirect your logs in files for production too.

Before You Begin

Before you begin we recommend you read about the basic building blocks that assemble a SEAN application:

• Sequelize - Go through Sequilize Official Website and looking at their API documentation.
• Express - The best way to understand express is through its Official Website, particularly The Express Guide; you can also go through this StackOverflow Thread for more resources.
• AngularJS - Angular's Official Website is a great starting point. You can also use Thinkster Popular Guide, and the Egghead Videos.
• Node.js - Start by going through Node.js Official Website and this StackOverflow Thread, which should get you going with the Node.js platform in no time.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed all these prerequisites on your development machine.

• Node.js - Download & Install Node.js and the npm package manager, if you encounter any problems, you can also use this Github Gist to install Node.js.
• Postgres / mySQL / any SQL engine - Install your required database engine and checkout later how to set it up
• Bower - You're going to use the Bower Package Manager to manage your front-end packages, in order to install it make sure you've installed Node.js and npm, then install bower globally using npm:

$ npm install -g bower

• Grunt - You're going to use the Grunt Task Runner to automate your development process, in order to install it make sure you've installed Node.js and npm, then install grunt globally using npm:

$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Downloading SEAN

There are several ways you can get the SEAN boilerplate:

Yo Generator

The recommended way would be to use the Official Yo Generator which will generate the latest stable copy of the SEANboilerplate and supplies multiple sub-generators to ease your daily development cycles.

Cloning The GitHub Repository

You can also use Git to directly clone the SEAN repository:

$ git clone  [email protected]:MangoTools/sean.git  sean

This will clone the latest version of the SEAN repository to a sean folder.

Quick Install

Once you've downloaded the boilerplate and installed all the prerequisites, you're just a few steps away from starting to develop you SEAN application.

The first thing you should do is install the Node.js dependencies. The boilerplate comes pre-bundled with a package.json file that contains the list of modules you need to start your application, to learn more about the modules installed visit the NPM & Package.json section.

To install Node.js dependencies you're going to use npm again, in the application folder run this in the command-line:

$ npm install

This command does a few things:

• First it will install the dependencies needed for the application to run.
• If you're running in a development environment, it will then also install development dependencies needed for testing and running your application.
• Finally, when the install process is over, npm will initiate a bower installcommand to install all the front-end modules needed for the application

Configure your DB engine

SEAN is relational database agnostic but there is a couple off steps that needs to be done for your particular Database Engine:

First Edit your configs files in /app/config/env (development.js,production.js and test.js needs to be edited). The following portion of the file is the part you require for database setup

db: {
       dbName:'sean-dev',
       username : 'SeanDB',
       password : 'HU7XQQBNWq',
       dialect: "postgres", // 'sqlite', 'postgres', 'mariadb','mysql'
       port : 5432 //    5432 for postgres, 3306 for mysql and mariaDB ,
    },

Then configure your database engine with the same settings and your are all set ready to go.

Running Your Application

After the install process is over, you'll be able to run your application using Grunt, just run grunt default task:

$ grunt

Your application should run on the 3000 port so in your browser just go to http://localhost:3000

That's it! your application should be running by now, to proceed with your development check the other sections in this documentation. If you encounter any problem try the Troubleshooting section.

Session secret.

your express session secret is located in /app/config/env/all.js and look like this :

secret: 'SEAN - Need to be Changed'

YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR SESSION SECRET BEFORE GOING IN PRODUCTION to avoid security issues. In fact do it first thing so your don't forget

Community

• Join #seanJS on freenode.
• Discuss it in the new Google Group

Credits

Inspired by the great work of the MEANJS team.

and indirectly by Madhusudhan Srinivasa The MEAN name was coined by Valeri Karpov The SEAN name is coined by The Mango Tools team

License

(The MIT License)

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