cmdr-logs (Commander Logs)

This project is a sci-fi style journaling platform made specifically for Elite Dangerous commanders (or CMDRs) to role play writing a Captain's Journal during their adventures.

This project is generated with yo angular generator version 0.15.1. Setup according to the article/guide here.

Play

Go to commanderlog, create an account, and start your journey!

Install

• Clone the repo
• cd client && npm install
• bower install
• cd ../server && npm install

Build & development

Run grunt --force to build and push to the /server/dist/ folder. While you can run grunt serve from the /client folder, go ahead and just use the /server location and run npm test. This will have node running the app on localhost:3000 using nodemon. Nice to have a little extra like being able to make http proxies and whatnot via express routes.

The production run command is npm start.

Note: Bower is installed to /client/app so that the server can access the bower_components location without having to change the index.html of those resources.

Mac Electron build

Commander Log uses electron to create desktop software.

• Global npm installs, do npm install -g electron electron-packager@8.4.0

Ensure you've done npm install and bower install from the /client folder. Now simply do npm run package-mac and after a time it should create a release-builds folder where you'll find the generated .app.

Windows Electron build

Commander Log uses electron to create desktop software. Currently, for Windows the pre-requisites are to have the following setup:

• Start from Win10 OS.
• Install Visual Studio 2015 (or Community 2015), and MAKE SURE to pick Visual C++ and Python Tools during installation options. If already installed, you can return to that screen by going Control Panel > click Update on VS2015 > Then pick during Update.
• Install Node
• Install npm
• Global npm installs, do npm install -g electron electron-packager@8.4.0 - if totally new OS, you'll need the normal globals as well like bower grunt-cli, etc..
• Install Python 2.7 (python.org)
• Add a system variable to your PATH. You can use command prompt to do "setx GYP_MSVS_VERSION 2015".
• (optional) - setup Windows Powershell and use this for all your terminal actions. I recommend ensuring your Windows Powershell version is up to date (I think this requires newest version of GA .NET).
• NOTE: Run Powershell as Adminstrator if you get errors about "cannot create symlinks".

After pre-reqs are in place, you should be able to build from that windows machine. Ensure you've done npm install and bower install in the /client folder. Then you'll want to also copy the bower_components folder into the /client/app folder, as I havent' setup a better way to do this now (I realize it's silly). Now from /client simply do npm run package-win and it will build a release-builds folder where you'll find the generated .exe.

Testing

Running grunt test will run the unit tests with karma.