arulkumar-lab / arul-ui-angularjs

AngularJS sample application with testcase run

arul-ui-angularjs — the sample application for AngularJS apps loads from template

This project is an application skeleton for a typical AngularJS web app. You can use it to quickly bootstrap your angular webapp projects and dev environment for these projects.

The depth=1 tells git to only pull down one commit worth of historical data.

Install Dependencies

We have two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools and AngularJS framework code. The tools help us manage and test the application.

• We get the tools we depend upon and the AngularJS code via npm, the Node package manager.
• In order to run the end-to-end tests, you will also need to have the Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on your machine. Check out the section on end-to-end testing for more info.

We have preconfigured npm to automatically copy the downloaded AngularJS files to app/lib so we can simply do:

npm install

Behind the scenes this will also call npm run copy-libs, which copies the AngularJS files and other front end dependencies. After that, you should find out that you have two new directories in your project.

• node_modules - contains the npm packages for the tools we need
• app/lib - contains the AngularJS framework files and other front end dependencies

Note copying the AngularJS files from node_modules to app/lib makes it easier to serve the files by a web server.

Run the Application

We have preconfigured the project with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:

npm start

Now browse to the app at localhost:8000/index.html.

Directory Layout

app/                  --> all of the source files for the application
  app.css               --> default stylesheet
  core/                 --> all app specific modules
    version/              --> version related components
      version.js                 --> version module declaration and basic "version" value service
      version_test.js            --> "version" value service tests
      version-directive.js       --> custom directive that returns the current app version
      version-directive_test.js  --> version directive tests
      interpolate-filter.js      --> custom interpolation filter
      interpolate-filter_test.js --> interpolate filter tests
  view1/                --> the view1 view template and logic
    view1.html            --> the partial template
    view1.js              --> the controller logic
    view1_test.js         --> tests of the controller
  view2/                --> the view2 view template and logic
    view2.html            --> the partial template
    view2.js              --> the controller logic
    view2_test.js         --> tests of the controller
  app.js                --> main application module
  index.html            --> app layout file (the main html template file of the app)
  index-async.html      --> just like index.html, but loads js files asynchronously
e2e-tests/            --> end-to-end tests
  protractor-conf.js    --> Protractor config file
  scenarios.js          --> end-to-end scenarios to be run by Protractor
karma.conf.js         --> config file for running unit tests with Karma
package.json          --> Node.js specific metadata, including development tools dependencies
package-lock.json     --> Npm specific metadata, including versions of installed development tools dependencies

Testing

npm test

npm run test-single-run

Running End-to-End Tests

npm start

npm run update-webdriver

Once you have ensured that the development web server hosting our application is up and running, you can run the end-to-end tests using the supplied npm script:

npm run protractor

This script will execute the end-to-end tests against the application being hosted on the development server.

Updating AngularJS and other dependencies

Since the AngularJS framework library code and tools are acquired through package managers (e.g. npm) you can use these tools to easily update the dependencies. Simply run the preconfigured script:

npm run update-deps

This will call npm update and npm run copy-libs, which in turn will find and install the latest versions that match the version ranges specified in the package.json file.

If you want to update a dependency to a version newer than what the specificed range would permit, you can change the version range in package.json and then run npm run update-deps as usual.

Loading AngularJS Asynchronously

npm run update-index-async

Running the App during Development

You can start this web server with npm start, but you may choose to install the tool globally:

sudo npm install -g http-server

Then you can start your own development web server to serve static files from any folder by running:

http-server -a localhost -p 8000

Contact

For more information on AngularJS please check out angularjs.org.