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

• Social authentication based on Passport.
• Detect if API is online
• Change template to Ehesp/Responsive-Dashboard
• Loading indicators

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://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://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://localhost:27017/loopback-angular-admin" npm start

Please refer the the following commits to see what it takes to add or rename a model in the API and the client.

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.

If you have any problems please contact me.