1 - Clone the app from GitHub:
git@github.com:crowbar/crowbar-ui.git
2 - Locate yourself into the recently created folder:
cd crowbar-ui
Make sure you have Node.js installed in your machine with NPM, if not, please proceed to install it before continuing with the following steps. (more info: https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
3 - Let npm install all the needed packages:
npm install
4 - Some packages, like gulp, needs to be installed globally to be available through the console. Let's install them:
sudo npm install -g gulp
5 - You will need to have Bower installed globally in your machine:
npm install -g bower
6 - Let bower fetch all our dependencies:
NODE_ENV=production npm run preinstall
7 - Let Gulp build the public folder for your assets (it will keep watching for changes, so yes, after this, you are ready to start making changes in the front-end):
NODE_ENV=production npm run postinstall
8 - Run the server at http://localhost:3000 with (you will need to restart it every time you make changes in the backend, but not in the layout or front-end in general):
NODE_ENV=production npm start
1 - Everytime you update master from new PR merged into it, make sure you have all the latest libraries from package.json by running
npm install
2 - and then, in a new terminal:
npm run preinstall && npm run postinstall
to compile all your assets again and leave it watching your changes.
:)
