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In Cincinnati, we've been working on a project in the margins of our timesheets. It's early days for the project, but I thought it'd be nice to discuss some lessons learned while they are still fresh in my mind. I've mostly been focused on workflow and plumbing of this Angular 2 app that will get data from a headless Drupal instance.
- Angular2 (typescript)
- Grunt (ts, tslint, jshint, imagemin, cachebusting)
- Sass
- Pug
- KSS
- Protractor (E2E/integration tests)
- Karma (Unit tests)
- SVGStore
- JSON Server
- Connect
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Just add water (read: static json file) for your own restful database
I wanted to start scaffolding out a functional frontend before the backend was set up. This enabled me to mock up a chicken so I could develop an egg.
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A standalone node server that is what powers express.
- Simplify Selinium setup for continuous integration
- Eliminate need of apache configuration on developer machine.
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I originally introduced connect so I could spin up a server in CI to run Protractor against. During the struggle to configure Apache one Kevin's computer, it occured to me that he doesn't need apache any more than Team City does. He types npm start: Connect and json server fire up on 2 ports for dev, they spin up clones under different ports for Protractor to periodically run and the browser launches to the reveal a livereloading dev site.
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I have the project configured to be built with typescript via a grunt wrapper around the standard tsc while keeping all the files where the Angular2 CLI expects them to be. This way I can have as sophisticated of a build/deploy process as I want without needing to roll my own brocholi extensions
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I'm not seeing a lot of advantage to using Typescript, yet. It's cumbersome.
- https://vcs.rockfishinteractive.com/projects/RFI/repos/rockfish-projectboard/browse
- https://github.com/typicode/json-server
- https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-connect
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Summary, thus far: Angular 2 is not so scary. Typscript is not an easy sell. Optimizing for robots can provide benefits for humans. In a pinch, Kevin Peterson can write code.