Updated README.md

zza-node-mongo/readme.md

@@ -10,26 +10,24 @@ The "Zza Node Mongo" sample app is a single page application (SPA) built with Br
 
 ### Extract the database
 
-Extract the Zza application's MongoDB database in *zza-mongo-database.zip* to your MongoDB data directory.
+The *zza-mongo-database.zip* file is the Zza application's MongoDB database. Extract it into the *db* folder. 
 
->The default location per MongoDB installation instructions is *C:\data*. Your location may be different.
+You should see three new files in the *db* folder: "zza.0", "zza.1", and "zza.ns"
 
-You only have to install this database once.
+You only have to do this once.
 
 ### Install dependent node modules
 
-1. Open a command prompt window.
+1. Open a command/terminal window.
 
-2. Navigate to the *Zza-Node-Mongo* directory.
+1. Navigate to the *Zza-Node-Mongo* directory.
 
-3. Use npm to install the following three modules:
+1. Use npm to install the dependent packages enumerated in the *package.json* file:
 
+     	npm install
 
-     npm install mongodb
-     npm install express
-     npm install breeze-mongodb
 
-Confirm that all of them ran without error (warnings are ok). You can close this window when you're done.
+1. Confirm that all of them ran without error (warnings are ok). You can close this window when you're done.
 
 You only install these modules once.
 
@@ -38,28 +36,30 @@ You only install these modules once.
 
 1. Open a new command prompt window.
 
-2. Navigate to the *mongodb/bin* directory.
+1.	Start MongoDB by typing
 
-	>The default location per MongoDB installation instructions is *C:\mongodb\bin*. Your location may be different.
+		mongod --dbpath db	
 
-3.	Type **mongod** to start MongoDB.
+	This launches the MongoDb server pointing to the folder with the zza database (see db installation above).
 
 	>Do not close this window. Closing the window will end the MongoDB process.
 
-4.	Open a new command prompt window.
+1.	Open a new command/terminal window.
 
-5.	Navigate to the *Zza-Node-Mongo* directory.
+1.	Navigate to the *Zza-Node-Mongo* directory.
 
-6.	Type **node server** to start the Node.js/Express server.
-7.
-	>Do not close this window. Closing the window will end the Express process.
+1.	Start the app's node/express server by typing
+
+		node server
+
+	>Do not close this window. Closing the window will end the node/express process.
 
 ### Run Zza
 
-Open **localhost:3000** in a web browser to run the Zza application.
+Open [**localhost:3000**](http://localhost:3000) in a web browser to run the Zza application.
 
 ## Release 0.8.0
 * Initial release.
-* Demonstrates fundamental characteristics of a MongoDB app.
+* Demonstrates fundamental characteristics of a MongoDB app accessed with Breeze.
 * Maintainable w/o any Microsoft assets at all, neither code nor development tools.
-* Demonstrates more sophisticated user interaction paradigms than other Breeze samples. (It actually looks like a SPA.)
+