This project is a Loopback API used in part 2 of Learn Angular from scratch step by step tutorial where we explore from the basic concepts and why’s of Angular to building a complete Angular 7 app with the MEAN stack.
The goal of this angular 7 tutorial is to guide you through the coding of a full-stack JavaScript example application project and connecting a backend API to an Angular front-end application employing the MEAN stack.
By the end of this Angular advanced tutorial, you will learn about the mean stack from scratch, including how to build a RESTful API with Loopback and using it to perform CRUD operations on a MongoDB database through an Angular frontend.
Get the step by step free tutorial in https://angular-templates.io/tutorials/about/learn-how-to-build-a-mean-stack-application
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Run npm install to install all the required dependencies
Then run npm run start to start the API in your local environment.
Web server listening at: http://localhost:3000
Browse your REST API at http://localhost:3000/explorer
Please read the tutorial to see how to use this project
After installing the node dependencies run the following command to generate the sdk:
./node_modules/.bin/lb-sdk server/server.js ./client/sdk
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