Setting up my Node.js solution in Cloud9 IDE

Now where do we go after we have a brand new toy.. I just installed Cloud9 IDE.. see how-to install cloud9 here.

I want to setup a quick web app (really, really quick). I will time it.

00:00 - Get all my favourite (sounding) node modules from npm (presume you have npm) then use...

npm install  

See all the goodies I got.. note espresso took some time. Also look them up at http://search.npmjs.org/#/ 

00:09 - I had to install mongodb separately using (can also go here ..)

sudo apt-get install mongodb

00:18 - Created a folder at ~/devroot/MongoDb/data/db for my MongoDb instances. Now to run the db server..

mongod --port 9080 --objcheck --dbpath "devroot/MongoDb/data/db" --directoryperdb --rest

Note: --rest == RestApi, --directoryperdb == create a new dir for each new db's files
Success == MongoDb web console at http://127.0.0.1:10080/ (not so sure about the port, but trust that the mongod startup script should tell you your magic port number)

00:22 - Try out the mongodb server quickly...

mongo 

db.foo.save( some json object here );

db.foo.find()

 00:24 - setup that web app... hmm
Ok. Make sure you have done a global install of express using

sudo npm install -g express 

00:26 -  Use express to setup your solution structure inside your project root

sudo express  

cd   

npm install 

Note: this  installs default packages only so I had to get other ones here by

npm install

It uses  the cache (304) so it does not waste your time. I have now installed,
ejs, mongoose, colors.. (see list above)

Lets setup some routing .. see a good guide on expressjs here .. i am not re-inventing this.

Should be easy enough from here... good luck!