This repo is a Work In Progress of, in my mind, a pretty sweet Apple TV TVOS/TVML/TVJS app setup. It features:
- ES6 with Babel
- Bundled Javascript with Webpack
- Webpack is also managing:
- Stylus for CSS
- Jade for templates, compiling to a DOM object
- Using
require()to load up images
- URL-based routing for easy navigation and view handling using page.js
- Live reload
The structure of the application is very similar to an Express app, complete with routes and views. This is a work in progress. I aim to flesh the project out to be more of a complete app, with plenty of documentation and comments explaining how things work.
A TVML app for Apple TV consists of two parts:
- The native Swift host app. This does very little - it just loads the javascript bundle.
- The Javascript app. In production you would upload this to S3 or some sort of server. This is the bulk of the application.
Run the dev server with:
npm install
npm start
And build the native Swift host app into the simulator and it should all work.
Note: This project uses API's from an Australia catchup TV video-on-demand service, which may or may not be geoblocked.