GET error MEAN App

I've been learning how to use the MEAN stack in order to build web apps and so far it's been a lot of fun. Instead of using yeoman generators or npm app to generate my code for me, I've been building my whole app from the ground up. This way I know how each piece connects and what is going on with my app. I was just starting to connect the front and back end of my app when I looked at the developer console and saw

GET http://ift.tt/1JOZRb6

Not only angular, but every other resource I have (Modernizr, angular-routes, mootools, restangular, etc ...). When you use the yeoman angular generator you are suppose to run the grunt serve command to start up the angular side. Because I built the app from scratch and I am using npm for my build tool I didn't know how to build the front end server. So, I just went with a simple nginx virtual host pointing to my index.html. Here's the config:

server {
        listen 80;

        server_name blog.dev;

        root /home/michael/Workspace/blog/app;
        index index.html index.htm;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
}

I'm not sure what other variables could be affecting the situation, so if I missed something please tell me and I'll be happy to give you what you need!