This is going to be series of article on MEAN stack. Start with setting up development environment with the following the tools

Introduction to Vagrant

Vagrant is computer software that creates and configures virtual development environments. It can be seen as a higher-level wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM and Linux Containers (LXC), and around configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, Salt, and Puppet.

Windows

• Install Vagrant
  • check the link https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html and download
  • run Vagrant.ext to install
  • restart machine
  • go to command line (cmd)
  • type vagrant --version to verify the installation
• Create a vagrant script named vagrantfile

  Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    
    // this is the box name
    config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
    
    // provision script from a separate file
    config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  
    //forward the apache port to host machine with a 
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   different port
    config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 1001
  
    //forward the nodejs port to host machine with a different port
    config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 8001, host: 8001
  
    //share folder between host and guest machine
    config.vm.synced_folder "/Users/vagrant/helloworld", "/vagrant"
  end

• Run Vagrant Machine with Ubuntu 14.04

  # vagrant up

• Adding SSH key access to vagrant machine (using PPK file)
  • Install Putty and Putty Gen
  • To generate PPK (Putty Private key), open puttygen
  • Select import private key from the menu
  • show the path of the private key generated by vagrant, default at 
    YOUR_BOX_LOCATION\.vagrant\machines\default\virtualbox\private_key
  • Click the save private key button and save the file in the same location where the default vagrant private key located.
• SSH to Vagrant Machine (putty, puttygen)
  • Open putty program
  • add the host name in hostbox, default is: 127.0.0.1
  • add the port number, default is: 2222
  • name the settings: testVagrant
  • for authentication, from left sidebar look for auth options and select that. left side you will see the option to browse the path of the PPK file.
  • Now click open and it will ask for login user name. Default user is: vagrant
• Running the Vagrant from host machine
  • Install Apache Web Server using Ubuntu package manager (APT- Advanced Packaging Tool)

    # Sudo apt-get update
    # sudo apt-get install apache2

  • Forward port from guest machine to host machine using Vagrantfile configuration
• Setup Vagrant Provisional items
  • Add Apache web server in bootstrap.sh

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    
    # install apache2 server
    apt-get update
    apt-get install -y apache2
    if ! [ -L /var/www ]; then
      rm -rf /var/www
      ln -fs /vagrant /var/www
    fi

  • Add node package into the server

    # install node package
    apt-get install -y g++
    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sh
    apt-get install -y nodejs
    su vagrant
    mkdir /home/vagrant/node_modules
    cd /var/www/
    ln -s /home/vagrant/node_modules/ node_modules
    npm install karma

  • Create and Run First node.js server

    var http = require('http');
    var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
        response.writeHead(200, {"content-Type": "text/plain"});
        response.end("Hello Node World\n");
    });
    
    server.listen(8001);
    console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8001');

• Mac
  • Install Vagrant
  • Create a vagrant script

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Series:

MEAN Stack 01: Prepare development environment

MEAN Stack 02: mongoDB installation with provision and starting with mongodb

MEAN Stack 03: How to work with mongoDB

MEAN Stack 04: Start with Express framework using nodejs