frontpage-dictybase

The new dynamic FrontPage of dictyBase.

Introduction

Development of a dynamic framework for the dictybase using AngularJS, an open-source web application framework. The advantage of AngularJS is that the client side only requires HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The model-view-controller capability makes both development and testing easier.

Usage

Requires npm version ^0.10 and git. If you have them, run:

git clone https://github.com/dictyBase/frontpage-dictybase.git
cd frontpage-dictybase
npm install --production

As a result, all the dependencies specified in package.json are installed locally in the directory node_modules. To use them, they have to be added to the path, for example:

export PATH="$(npm bin):$PATH"

The final step is to run bower:

bower install

Build

grunt serve for preview
grunt build builds the frontpage into the folder www

Installation for developers

Requires the following installations:

python
libpng-dev

...and then run

npm install

Test & Coverage

grunt test

It uses Karma to run the tests available at test/
It uses the plugin karma-coverage to generate code coverage using Istanbul. The report is available at coverage/

To find out more, check the file test/karma.conf.js

Design principles

Documentation about design can be found here.