/Appforms-Template-v3

Appforms Template App Generator To Be Used With Drag & Drop Apps

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FeedHenry Drag & Drop Apps Template App v3

Overview

This Template App is intended to work with the Drag & Drop Apps feature in the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform.

This Template App builds the appforms-project-client Template App.

It is based on Backbone and uses the $fh.forms.backbone SDK to render forms into the app.

To build:

grunt

Produces a dist folder and dist-dev folder.

  • The dist folder contains the minified version of the template app.

Development Guide

This Client App makes use of Feedhenry JS SDK. Specifically

Running Client App Locally

The Client App can be run locally using the following commands in the Client App directory:

  1. npm install.
  2. grunt serve.

Developing With The Core SDK

When you want to change either the Backbone or Core forms SDK, it is easier to symlink the Backbone Forms SDK and Core Forms SDK directly into you local directory.

  1. Clone the source code for the Client App. (Fork This Repo)
  2. Clone the Feedhenry JS SDK locally.
  3. Run grunt build on the fh-js-sdk to build the required SDK files.
  4. Symlink dist/feedhenry-forms.js to www/feedhenry.js.
  5. Symlink dist/appForms-backbone.js to www/lib/appform-backbone.js.
  6. Run your app locally. When ever a change is made to the js-sdk, run grunt build again to update the symlinks and refresh the app. The symlinks will allow the changes to be reflected immediately.

Running Cloud App Locally

It is possible to run the Hello World Cloud App locally and have the locally running Cloud App get forms/make submissions from the relevant mbaas.

  1. Create a Hello World Cloud App in the Studio.
  2. Deploy the Cloud App to an environment.
  3. Once successful, the following environment variables are required. These can be found in the Environment Variables section of the Cloud App:
  4. FH_APPNAME
  5. FH_DOMAIN
  6. FH_ENV
  7. FH_INSTANCE
  8. FH_MBAAS_ENV_ACCESS_KEY
  9. FH_MBAAS_HOST
  10. FH_MBAAS_PROTOCOL
  11. FH_WIDGET
  12. FH_APP_API_KEY
  13. Place the Environment Variables in the Gruntfile.js file of your local Cloud App in the env.local section of the config.
  14. In the local Cloud App, run grunt serve:local to initialise the Cloud App.

Running Client App In The RHMAP Studio

This client app already has the correct structure to be imported directly into the RHMAP Studio. Simply follow the App Import Guide.