The curriculum lead-up to the first Back End Project is not very comprehensive. Here are a number of common resources which other campers have found helpful.

Getting Started with Back End Projects

• https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/wiki/Intro-to-Yeoman-Angular-Fullstack-Back-End-Projects - Lots of helpful tips and tricks for the Yeoman Angular Fullstack setup
• https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack#generators - Generator used by Yeoman, you can find syntax and what files it creates

APIs

• API for Charting the stock market: https://www.quandl.com/help/api

MEAN Stack Tutorials & Videos

• 5 Part Series on setting up a MEAN stack

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHV7gOHvNdk

• A MEAN tutorial that creates a simple Twitter clone

  https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/MEAN-Stack-Jump-Start

• Clementine is a stripped down MEAN stack, great for learning the fundamentals.

  https://johnstonbl01.github.io/clementinejs/tutorials/tutorial-beginner.html

• Authentication with Passport for the MEAN stack:

  https://vickev.com/#!/article/authentication-in-single-page-applications-node-js-passportjs-angularjs

• An amazing list of resources for learning the MEAN stack:

  https://github.com/ericdouglas/MEAN-Learning

Scotch IO Tutorials

• https://scotch.io/tutorials/setting-up-a-mean-stack-single-page-application
  
• https://scotch.io/tutorials/node-and-angular-to-do-app-application-organization-and-structure

Node/Express

• Online Debugging for Node.js/Express

Cloud 9 Tricks

Speed up browser reloads

1. Open gruntfile.js and edit both instances of livereload: true to livereload: false.
2. Open server/config/express.js and comment out the line app.use(require('connect-livereload')());