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Hello I just cloned meanjs project and somehow there is no app folder under that project. Why they changed the structure? Am I doing something wrong? Sorry just try to learn Node and one of those tutorials I follow up is using that project

Meanjs project github link

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it looks like the new version 0.4.0 has been already merged to the master branch and it has a new folder structure, if you want to work with the version 0.3.x that has the folder structure you mentioned you can clone the latest tagged 0.3.3 release: 

git clone --branch v0.3.3 https://github.com/meanjs/mean.git

This will checkout to a 'detached HEAD' branch that has the 0.3.3(current latest 0.3.x) version and the folder structure you're looking for.

After cloning this version you can use the yeoman generator to create your template project from there.

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  • Is there any guides telling what is where in that new structure? All the tutorials describe the old structure with app folder, and its confusing. There is directory `modules`, some of it structure is same with app, some are not. I don't want to use the old structure either. – proxy Jan 20 '16 at 06:41
  • Hi @proxy , yes I agree, all tutorials I could find point to the old structure. I had the same hard time to find out by myself how it's currently structured in new 4.x versions. I guess that's why they're asking for help on documenting it in their project site: http://meanjs.org/docs/0.4.x/ – groo Jan 20 '16 at 15:04
  • I cloned by ``git clone --branch v0.3.3 https://github.com/meanjs/mean.git`` but I can't have app folder , just modules folder with client , server , test inside – Loint Jun 30 '16 at 04:10
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The app folder is removed, which is the major concern for the noobs trying their hands on MEANjs following the older tutorials. Controllers,views, models are now moved into a separate folder called modules which was previously in the public folder. You can explore modules/core/server and modules/user/server of your project

for future people running into this same problem.

credits goes to pooja's answer at this thread

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