This appendix covers
- Adding Twitter Bootstrap and a custom theme
- Installing Git
- Installing a suitable command-line interface
- Signing up for Heroku
- Installing Heroku toolbelt
There are several technologies that can help with developing on the MEAN stack, from front-end layouts to source control and deployment tools. This appendix covers the installation and setup of the supporting technologies used throughout this book. As the actual install instructions tend to change over time, this appendix will point you toward the best place to get the instructions and anything you need to look out for.
Bootstrap is not really installed as such, but rather added to your application. This is as simple as downloading the library files, unzipping them, and placing them into the application.
The first step is to download Bootstrap. You can get this from www.getbootstrap.com. Make sure that you download the distribution zip and not the source. At the time of writing Bootstrap is on version 3.0.2 and the distribution zip contains three folders: css, fonts, and js.
Once you have it downloaded and unzipped, the files need to be moved into the public folder in your Express application. To keep the files together and the top level clean, create a new folder called Bootstrap in the public folder and copy the unzipped files into there. The public folder in your application should now look like figure B.1.