Insert the purpose of this project and some interesting info here...
This app demonstrates a TypeScript setup for developing UI5 applications. The central entry point for all information about using TypeScript with UI5 is at https://sap.github.io/ui5-typescript.
The template is inspired by the SAP-samples/ui5-typescript-helloworld
project which also contains a detailed step-by-step guide. It explains how this setup is created and how all the bits and pieces fit together.
Either npm or yarn for dependency management.
Use npm
(or yarn
) to install the dependencies:
npm install
(To use yarn, just do yarn
instead.)
Execute the following command to run the app locally for development in watch mode (the browser reloads the app automatically when there are changes in the source code):
npm start
As shown in the terminal after executing this command, the app is then running on http://localhost:8080/index.html. A browser window with this URL should automatically open.
(When using yarn, do yarn start
instead.)
In the browser, you can directly debug the original TypeScript code, which is supplied via sourcemaps (need to be enabled in the browser's developer console if it does not work straight away). If the browser doesn't automatically jump to the TypeScript code when setting breakpoints, use e.g. Ctrl
/Cmd
+ P
in Chrome to open the *.ts
file you want to debug.
Execute the following command to build the project and get an app that can be deployed:
npm run build
The result is placed into the dist
folder. To start the generated package, just run
npm run start:dist
Note that index.html
still loads the UI5 framework from the relative URL resources/...
, which does not physically exist, but is only provided dynamically by the UI5 tooling. So for an actual deployment you should change this URL to either the CDN or your local deployment of UI5.
(When using yarn, do yarn build
and yarn start:dist
instead.)
For an optimized self-contained build (takes longer because the UI5 resources are built, too), do:
npm run build:opt
To start the generated package, again just run:
npm run start:dist
In this case, all UI5 framework resources are also available within the dist
folder, so the folder can be deployed as-is to any static web server, without changing the bootstrap URL.
With the self-contained build, the bootstrap URL in index.html
has already been modified to load the newly created sap-ui-custom.js
for bootstrapping, which contains all app resources as well as all needed UI5 JavaScript resources. Most UI5 resources inside the dist
folder are for this reason actually not needed to run the app. Only the non-JS-files, like translation texts and CSS files, are used and must also be deployed. (Only when for some reason JS files are missing from the optimized self-contained bundle, they are also loaded separately.)
(When using yarn, do yarn build:opt
and yarn start:dist
instead.)
Do the following to run a TypeScript check:
npm run ts-typecheck
This checks the application code for any type errors (but will also complain in case of fundamental syntax issues which break the parsing).
To lint the TypeScript code, do:
npm run lint
(Again, when using yarn, do yarn ts-typecheck
and yarn lint
instead.)
This project is licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0 except as noted otherwise in the LICENSE file.