simple-odf

simple-odf is a library for creating Open Document Format text files using Typescript/JavaScript and Node.js.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Usage
• Contributing
• Versioning
• Credits
• License
• Documentation

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See usage for notes on how to integrate the project in your software.

Prerequisites

To get started locally, follow these instructions:

1. Make sure that you have Node 10.x or later installed. See instructions here.

2. Make sure that you have yarn installed; see instructions here.

3. simple-odf uses npm for running development scripts. If you haven't already done so, please install npm.

Installing

1. Make a fork of this repo.

2. Clone the forked repo to your local computer using git.

   Open terminal and type:

   git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/simple-odf

3. Run npm install from the root of your clone of this project to install dependencies.

   # navigate into the cloned repo
   cd simple-odf
   # install the dependencies
   npm install

Building the Module

To make a local build run:

npm build
npm pack

This generates a number of javascript files in the dist/ directory and a simple-odf-<version-number>.tgz file in the project root.

To actually use the locally built lib, switch to another repository reproducing the specific issue you want to fix (or just generate a local repo). Then install the locally built package:

cd <path-to-your-other-repo>
npm install <path-to-the-simple-odf-repo>/*.tgz

Testing

There are two different kind of tests which can be run locally:

Unit Tests

Each class of project should be tested isolated which is done by the unit tests. To run them, just execute npm test.

Integration Tests

There are also some tests which verify that the resulting document is correct. These cannot be run yet.

When debugging a specific test, change describe() or it() to fdescribe() and fit() to focus execution to just that one test. This will keep the output clean and speed up execution by not running irrelevant tests.

Usage

If you want to use this package in your software, add it to your project dependencies via npm or yarn.

# npm
npm i simple-odf
# yarn
yarn add simple-odf

Now you can create your first document.

const simpleOdf = require('simple-odf');

const document = new simpleOdf.TextDocument();
const body = document.getBody();

body.addHeading('Welcome to simple-odf');
body.addParagraph('The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.');

document.saveFlat('/home/homer/Welcome.fodf');

See the examples for more details on how to use the library.

Built With

• @xmldom/xmldom - Used to serialize the XML

Contributing

If you want to contribute to simple-odf, you are very welcome. Send issues and pull requests with your ideas.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Credits

This project exists thanks to all the contributors who participate in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Documentation

Learn more about the OASIS Open Document Format.

• Features
• API reference