Hi everyone. This project is for learning and contains a connection between angular 2, node, express and mongo. The goal is to show a chat-room with your self, where every message is saved in mongo and then retrieved from it in order to render them in the view.

What you need to install !

1. Clone (or download) this repo.
2. Download Mongo. Go to Mongo's homepage and download the package. Once done that, move the package to a folder where you can access.
   • Add the route of the folder to your path. Example:
     • 
     • if you still can't run mongo, visit Mongo's manual in section Run MongoDB
   • Start mongo by typing mongod in your console.
     • In addition, you can start the mongo client like this: mongo (this allows you to access all your databases and perform queries).
3. Go to Node's homepage and download the CURRENT version of Node.
   • Once you've download node, go to the root folder of this project. Then hit: npm install
   • If you have troubles with webstartserver and del-cli packages, try to install these 2 globally (-g option)
4. Go to the root folder of this project, then:
   • Run npm run build to run the development build script => Keep this process running! It recompiles your files upon changes.
   • Run npm start in a new command line/ terminal window => Keep this process running as well, it's your NodeJS server.
5. Open a browser and go to: http://localhost:3000/messages