mean

Everything is pretty awesome and ready for the 1.0
Changed first look and feel...

Material Design as the base CSS package for MEAN stack

More Details: https://github.com/linnovate/mean/issues/1648

Another step towards our first rc.

1. Stacksight / meanio refactor
2. Styling changes (Adhering to https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide )

This release focuses on

• implementing a basic permissions model using "circles"
• Introducing the notion of circles which provide an abstract way of associating objects to groups and providing middleware to provide permissions and acls according to that association

0.5 is the latest 0.x releases and will be the functional framework for mean 1.0
This is the first time we're rolling out new functionality in quite a while
The release contains...

• Clean Urls (html5 push state support)
• Angular SEO support
• JWT based authentication (instead of sessions)
• Swagger support (API browsing of express endpoints)
• Admin package in core
• Mean Network integration

Note:
The clean urls and html5 push state support needed to make a clear distinction between server side routes and angular routes (the #! was removed).
To do so all express routes now start with /api/
Please excuse us as we patch the package creation package and issue updates to previous packages...

• Changed to use gulp exclusively
• Simplified installation - removed interaction

Aggregation fixes
Installer refactoring and cleanup

• Choice of Grunt or Gulp (thanks @mkelley33!)
• Laid groundwork for running Grunt in each package (thanks @AlmogBaku!)
• Ability to run server Cluster
• XSS Security fix
• PAAS w/ mean-deploy

• Core modules support - splitting the core
• DB and Multiple db connections
• First experience UX
• Aggregation changes
  • Added option to turn off aggregation

• Moving core logic into packages
• Uglify aggregated js
• Allow DB overriding of configuration files and created /config directory
• Moved core mean logic from express.js to meanio package
• Release of mean-cli version 0.5.3
• Moved public/libs to bower_componets
• Removed public and server directory logic to system and access paclages
• Created JS and CSS grouping and weights to allow changing order of js and css files

• Upgrade to Express 4.1
• articles converted into an example package
• setup work for mean-admin
• numerous Grunt enhancements
• clarification on Heroku deployment

This was a massive release which fixed a lot of issues and paved the way for many new features. Documentation and detailed information is due in the 0.3.2 release

• Added Roles to user schema
• Added auth function for checking admin status
• Added menu system
• Added mean Package system
• Added mean CLI with scaffolding

Roles are added to new users that are registered. In order to use the features of the new mean version your old users in the database would need to be updated to have the authenticated role. The cli provides option to add roles to users.

• Changed aggegateJs/css function to aggregateAsset(type,path,options)
• Added automatic angular module generation
• Added dependency declaration for angular modules
• Use a git style sub command structure for cli

aggregateJs and aggregateCss is no longer supported

0.3.2 is a small release but has a large impact in the way packages are used

• Documentation for v0.3.x
• Support for custom packages within the mean app
• Changing of default scaffold location to /packages

Mean versions prior to 0.3.2 will still have the packages scaffolded into /node_modules