feat(core): disable Angular debug data in production

config/lib/express.js

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ module.exports.initLocalVariables = function (app) {
   app.locals.livereload = config.livereload;
   app.locals.logo = config.logo;
   app.locals.favicon = config.favicon;
+  app.locals.env = process.env.NODE_ENV;
 
   // Passing the request url to environment locals
   app.use(function (req, res, next) {

modules/core/client/app/config.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   var applicationModuleName = 'mean';
 
   var service = {
+    applicationEnvironment: window.env,
     applicationModuleName: applicationModuleName,
     applicationModuleVendorDependencies: ['ngResource', 'ngAnimate', 'ngMessages', 'ui.router', 'ui.bootstrap', 'ngFileUpload', 'ngImgCrop'],
     registerModule: registerModule

modules/core/client/app/init.js

@@ -10,13 +10,17 @@
     .module(app.applicationModuleName)
     .config(bootstrapConfig);
 
-  function bootstrapConfig($locationProvider, $httpProvider) {
+  function bootstrapConfig($compileProvider, $locationProvider, $httpProvider) {
     $locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix('!');
 
     $httpProvider.interceptors.push('authInterceptor');
+
+    // Disable debug data for production environment
+    // @link https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/production
+    $compileProvider.debugInfoEnabled(app.applicationEnvironment !== 'production');
   }
 
-  bootstrapConfig.$inject = ['$locationProvider', '$httpProvider'];
+  bootstrapConfig.$inject = ['$compileProvider', '$locationProvider', '$httpProvider'];
 
   // Then define the init function for starting up the application
   angular.element(document).ready(init);

modules/core/server/views/layout.server.view.html

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
 
   <!--Embedding The User Object-->
   <script type="text/javascript">
-    var user = {{ user | json | safe }};
+    var user = {{ user | json | safe }},
+        env = "{{ env }}";
   </script>
 
   <!--Load The Socket.io File-->

modules/core/tests/server/core.server.config.tests.js

@@ -10,14 +10,18 @@ var _ = require('lodash'),
   path = require('path'),
   fs = require('fs'),
   mock = require('mock-fs'),
+  request = require('supertest'),
   config = require(path.resolve('./config/config')),
   logger = require(path.resolve('./config/lib/logger')),
-  seed = require(path.resolve('./config/lib/seed'));
+  seed = require(path.resolve('./config/lib/seed')),
+  express = require(path.resolve('./config/lib/express'));
 
 /**
  * Globals
  */
-var user1,
+var app,
+  agent,
+  user1,
   admin1,
   userFromSeedConfig,
   adminFromSeedConfig,
@@ -507,4 +511,35 @@ describe('Configuration Tests:', function () {
       fileTransport.should.be.false();
     });
   });
+
+  describe('Testing exposing environment as a variable to layout', function () {
+
+    ['development', 'production', 'test'].forEach(function(env) {
+      it('should expose environment set to ' + env, function (done) {
+        // Set env to development for this test
+        process.env.NODE_ENV = env;
+
+        // Gget application
+        app = express.init(mongoose);
+        agent = request.agent(app);
+
+        // Get rendered layout
+        agent.get('/')
+          .expect('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')
+          .expect(200)
+          .end(function (err, res) {
+            // Set env back to test
+            process.env.NODE_ENV = 'test';
+            // Handle errors
+            if (err) {
+              return done(err);
+            }
+            res.text.should.containEql('env = "' + env + '"');
+            return done();
+          });
+      });
+    });
+
+  });
+
 });