How to clone and setup the FreeCodeCamp website on a Windows pc

This list works with the FreeCodeCamp site and have been tested on this Angular tutorial https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial as well. Setting up the dev environment on a Windows pc is easy although it will give a ton of errors first in the process. The important part is to correct these errors.

Toolchain

1. Git bash https://msysgit.github.io/
2. Node.js https://nodejs.org/
3. MongoDB https://www.mongodb.org/downloads
4. Python 2.7.10 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2710/

Install the 4 downloaded prerequsites. When installing Python and Node it is important to check the option add to the path variable. The Node installer does that by default. It is optional to add Mongo to the path. Python should be installed in a subfolder in %programfiles%

1. Open a command prompt with admin rights
2. Verify that Node is in th path with node -v
3. Verify that npm is in the path with npm -v
4. npm install npm -g npm install bower -g
npm install gulp -g npm install node-gyp -g npm install babel -g
   
5. If you want to spare the time in explorer finding Mongo when it has to be started create a .cmd file on your desktop and write the path to Mongo. Probably %programfiles%\MongoDB\Server\3.0\bin\mongod.exe.
6. Create the default folder for mongo to store databases: C:\data\db

Every command from now on has to be executed from Git Bash. npm install and bower install is downloading components from Git repos and MUST have access to the Git commands

1. Follow the instructions here https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/freecodecamp and clone the project.
2. Run npm install This will produce some warnings and maybe some errors. The warnings and some of the errors can be disregarded. Stackoverflow has large resources to solve the errors if they still come up the 2. time you run npm install.
3. Run bower install, npm install again and bower installagain
4. Start mongo from the desktop shortcut and run node seed. You should now see a lot of activity in the window where you started mongo.
5. Run gulp and note what port it starts the site on. (Should be 3000) Open localhost:3000 (or whatever port it started)

you're good to go