DEVELOPMENT.md

Developing Angular Dashboard

Tasks

The following commands are available through npm run (or, if configured ngl):

Command	Purpose
build	Runs code through build process via Angular compiler (ngc)
g	Generate code files (see above)
lint	Verify code matches linting rules
start	Run Webpack's dev-server on project (can be run as npm start)
test	Execute unit tests (can be run as npm test <type>)
tagVersion	Creates tag for new version and publishes

Adding External Scripts

To add an external script, add it with a script-loader! prefix to the scripts array of entry in webpack/webpack.dev.js (for the dev server) and add it to the files array of karma.conf.js (for testing).

An example, adding the file at node_modules/ext-dep/dist/dep.min.js:

/** webpack.dev.js **/
module.exports = {
    // other config
    entry: {
        app: [ path.resolve(rootDir, 'examples', 'example.main') ],
        scripts: [
            // this is the external script line
            'script-loader!' + path.resolve(rootDir, 'node_modules/ext-dep/dep.min')
        ],
        vendor: [ path.resolve(rootDir, 'src', 'vendor')],
        styles: [ path.resolve(rootDir, 'examples', 'styles.scss') ]
    },
    // rest of config
};

/** karma.conf.js **/
module.exports = function (config) {
    config.set({
        basePath: '',
        frameworks: ['jasmine'],
        files: [
            // this is the external script line
            'node_modules/hammerjs/hammer.min.js',
            { pattern: './src/test.js', watched: false }
        ],
        // rest of config
    });
};

Unit Testing

Unit testing is done using Karma and Webpack. The setup is all done during the initialize command. The provided testing commands will watch your files for changes.

The two following command is provided by default:

npm test <type>

This command calls the script at tasks/test.js and runs the Karma test runner to execute the tests. Prior to running Karma, the test command looks for a command line argument, if the argument is known, it will run the associated configuration, otherwise it will run the default configuration.

Configurations

Type	Testing TypeScript
default	Run through PhantomJS one time with no file watching
all	Run through Chrome & PhantomJS with files being watched & tests automatically re-run
headless	Run through PhantomJS with files being watched & tests automatically re-run
watch	Run through Chrome with files being watched & tests automatically re-run

Note that Chrome still requires a manual refresh on the Debug tab to see updated test results.

Packaging

Packaging is as simple as publishing to NPM by doing

npm run tagVersion

To test your packages output before publishing, you can run

npm pack

Which will generate a compressed file containing your library as it will look when packaged up and published to NPM. The basic structure of a published library is:

|__bundles/
   |__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.umd.js
   |__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.umd.js.map
   |__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.umd.min.js
   |__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.bundle.min.js.map
|__index.d.ts
|__package.json
|__README.md
|__*.d.ts
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.d.ts
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.module.d.ts
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.es5.js
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.es5.js.map
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.js
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.js.map
|__@angular-librarian/angular-dashboard.metadata.json

As you can see, the packaging removes any files specific to developing your library. It, more importantly, creates distribution files for usage with many different module systems.