The goal is to have a starter project which can be used to quickly build an API with a frontend that are easily extended.
- A Loopback REST API with authentication enabled built on the Loopback Generator
- A GUI built with AngularJS based on the Angular Generator
- Angular UI-Router
- JSON-based based forms by angular-formly
- Notifications by angular-toasty
- File upload with Loopback storage services
- Admin template powered by SB-Admin
- Markdown Editor with live preview with angular-markdown-editor
- Bunch of useful filters for AngularJS: a8m/angular-filter
- User management
- Permissions on user actions (non-admins cannot access advanced functions)
- permissions on content items (non-admins can only edit own content, etc)
- Social authentication based on Passport.
- Detect if API is online HubSpot/offline?
- Change template to Ehesp/Responsive-Dashboard or almasaeed2010/AdminLTE
- Loading indicators Urigo/angular-spinkit?
- Tell me more
- Add tests
- Add Dockerfile
- Add Vagrantfile
Installation depends on node
/npm
with grunt
and bower
installed globally.
git clone https://github.com/beeman/loopback-angular-admin.git
npm install
bower install
grunt
git clone https://github.com/beeman/loopback-angular-admin.git && cd loopback-angular-admin && npm install && bower install && grunt && npm start & grunt serve
The project is separated in a server and a client.
To run the server you issue the command:
npm start
Or to run it with nodemon (needs nodemon
installed globally). This will
automatically restart the server when you change its code:
npm run dev
Rebuild the lb-services.js file with the correct API_URL
for development.
API_URL=http:https://0.0.0.0:3000/api grunt
To run the client you issue the command:
grunt serve
It will open the project in your default browser with livereload enabled. This will take care of reloading the page when you change your code.
You can specify the URL to the MongoDB database you want to use with the MONGODB_URL
environment variable.
MONGODB_URL="mongodb:https://localhost:27017/loopback-angular-admin" npm start
Set INITDB
to true if you want to load the initial dataset, which creates the admin user. The memory database (default) does this automatically.
INITDB=true MONGODB_URL="mongodb:https://localhost:27017/loopback-angular-admin" npm start
This also works with the free hosted MongoDB instances at compose.io and mongolab.com!
For development you'd want to look into yeoman.
The API is built with generator-loopback.
The GUI is built with generator-angular.
These should help you quickly add code to your project. Further details tailored to this project might follow in the future.
These commits might be useful when extending the functionality.
- Add support for MongoDB databases
- Add custom method to the API
- Add a complete model in the API and client
- Rename a model
If you have any problems please contact me.