/simple-aurelia-app

Simple Aurelia App using Typescript & JSPM

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

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What is simple-aurelia-app?

  • A simple SPA application based on Aurelia Skeleton using Typescript and JSPM (project setup includes few productivity improvements)
  • Contains component for converting 4 supported currencies: PLN, USD, GBP, EUR
  • Leverage api -> http://api.nbp.pl/ to calculate money conversion

Application demo can be found here!

App features

Responsive design

Application is using Bootstrap to provide RWD. You can check app look and feel on different devices by entering very cool website http://ami.responsivedesign.is/

Responsive design

Jasmine JavaScript unit tests

Source code includes a few sample jasmine unit tests and code coverage results available in the coverage folder, after running gulp test task (Karma runner).

Code coverage

How to build & deploy app

Build

Install project tools

npm install -g gulp jspm typings

Install all project dependencies - run command in root folder of the project

npm install

Run

Run following command to start server and host app using BrowserSync. You can also use watch task for local development

gulp serve

Deploy

To deploy app to the server, first bundle dependencies and export all required files by running following command

gulp export --mergeConfig

Now you can simply deploy files from export folder to the host server. Website contains only static files.

Development guide

Below detail information was provided in Aurelia Skeleton app and is for development purposes and day-to-day workflow.

Running The App

To run the app, follow these steps.

  1. Ensure that NodeJS is installed. This provides the platform on which the build tooling runs.
  2. From the project folder, execute the following command:
npm install
  1. Ensure that Gulp is installed globally. If you need to install it, use the following command:
npm install -g gulp

Note: Gulp must be installed globally, but a local version will also be installed to ensure a compatible version is used for the project.

  1. Ensure that jspm is installed globally. If you need to install it, use the following command:
npm install -g jspm

Note: jspm must be installed globally, but a local version will also be installed to ensure a compatible version is used for the project.

Note: jspm queries GitHub to install semver packages, but GitHub has a rate limit on anonymous API requests. It is advised that you configure jspm with your GitHub credentials in order to avoid problems. You can do this by executing jspm registry config github and following the prompts. If you choose to authorize jspm by an access token instead of giving your password (see GitHub Settings > Personal Access Tokens), public_repo access for the token is required.

  1. Install the client-side dependencies with jspm:
jspm install -y

Note: Windows users, if you experience an error of "unknown command unzip" you can solve this problem by doing npm install -g unzip and then re-running jspm install.

  1. To run the app, execute the following command:
gulp watch
  1. Browse to http://localhost:9000 to see the app. You can make changes in the code found under src and the browser should auto-refresh itself as you save files.

The Skeleton App uses BrowserSync for automated page refreshes on code/markup changes concurrently across multiple browsers. If you prefer to disable the mirroring feature set the ghostMode option to false

Bundling

Bundling is performed by Aurelia Bundler. A gulp task is already configured for that. Use the following command to bundle the app:

  gulp bundle

You can also unbundle using the command bellow:

  gulp unbundle

To start the bundled app, execute the following command:

  gulp serve-bundle

Configuration

The configuration is done by bundles.js file.

Optional

Under options of dist/aurelia add rev: true to add bundle file revision/version.

Running The Unit Tests

To run the unit tests, first ensure that you have followed the steps above in order to install all dependencies and successfully build the library. Once you have done that, proceed with these additional steps:

  1. Ensure that the Karma CLI is installed. If you need to install it, use the following command:
npm install -g karma-cli
  1. Install Aurelia libs for test visibility:
jspm install aurelia-framework
jspm install aurelia-http-client
jspm install aurelia-router
  1. You can now run the tests with this command:
karma start

Exporting bundled production version

A gulp task is already configured for that. Use the following command to export the app:

  gulp export

The app will be exported into export directory preserving the directory structure.

To start the exported app, execute the following command:

  gulp serve-export

Configuration

The configuration is done by bundles.js file. In addition, export.js file is available for including individual files.