AppSuite:GettingStartedWithGrunt

Getting started with grunt

Node

Linux

Install the default nodejs of your distribution via your favourite package/ports manager and you are good to go.

Windows

Head to the node.js site and download and install the latest version. It is recommended to restart after the installation, as paths may not be up-to-date.

Mac OS X

We strongly encourage you to use homebrew. Actually, we won't support you if you don't. It's that bad.

Make sure you have an up-to-date homebrew installation.

brew update
brew upgrade

Check your homebrew installation with brew doctor and resolve any issues and repeat this step until homebrews output says "Your system is ready to brew.".

brew doctor

Install node via brew install node if is not yet installed.

brew install node

Make sure you never sudo anything related to node or its package manager npm. If you think you have to, you are doing something wrong and are probably dealing with a broken homebrew/macports installation! If this is the case, the easiest way of resolving this is completely deleting the homebrew (and if present macports) directories and (re)installing homebrew.

The default system's max opened file limit in mac os x is very low (256), in order to use grunt watch, it needs to be increased.

You can either set this in your shell via ulimit -n 8192 to a sensible value.

ulimit -n 8192

or you can set it permanently by adding limit maxfiles 8192 20480 to /etc/launchd.conf

echo "limit maxfiles 8192 20480" | sudo tee -a /etc/launchd.conf

Note that you will have to restart your system for the setting to be active.

Grunt & Bower

With npm install -g bower grunt-cli you can install the global npm dependencies needed for grunt and bower.

npm install -g bower grunt-cli

Cleaning development environment

Sometimes it is needed to completely wipe all old and ignored (by git) files. You can also do this using git by running git clean -ndx this will print a lot of files, but _not_ delete any. Check the list if you really want to remove these files. Then run git clean -fdx to really do the cleanup.

Installing node dependencies for OX Appsuite Frontend development

Change to the ui directory of your git workdirectory and run npm install. Make sure, you have got the git binary in your path. (This is sometimes a problem on windows, make sure to activate the option to put git into your path during msys-git installation. TODO: more detail)

Building the UI

Just run the default grunt task grunt

grunt

Local configuration

You can override some options on your local build environment by creating the file grunt/local.conf.json. See grunt/local.conf.default.json as a template.

Hint: copy the default file to grunt/local.conf.json to get started.

cp grunt/local.conf.default.json grunt/local.conf.json
vi grunt/local.conf.json

appserver

If you want to use the proxy function of the appserver, at least the server-variable needs to be configured.

{
    "appserver": {
        "server": "http://url.to.your.ser/appsuite/",
        "verbose": ["local:error"]
    }
}

You can run the appserver with the connect grunt task:

grunt connect:server:keepalive

or in combination with the watch task:

grunt connect watch