Cerebral

A state controller with its own debugger

Cerebral v1 is the current official release. Documentation is available at:

https://www.cerebraljs.com/.

Cerebral v2 is still a work in progress. Please head over to our cerebral v2 WIP website for more information:

https://cerebral.github.io/.

Try out Cerebral 2

To try out Cerebral 2 you can install any package with:

npm install {cerebralPackage}@next --save --save-exact

This will install the latest version of that package. New versions are automatically deployed whenever pull requests are merged into master.

When you want to update your packages you have to update all used packages in one go, for example:

npm install cerebral@next cerebral-router@next cerebral-provider-http@next --save --save-exact

Contribute

The entire Cerebral codebase has been rewritten to encourage contributions. The code is cleaned up, commented and all code is in a "monorepo". That means you can run tests across projects and general management of the code is simplified a lot.

Clone the monorepo: git clone https://github.com/cerebral/cerebral.git
In root: npm install
Run npm run setup:packages which will build packages source code and link it together
Run npm run setup if you need to set up whole repo (docs, demos, tutorials, debuggers)

The packages are located under packages folder and there is no need to run npm install for each package.

Using monorepo for your own apps

If you want to use Cerebral 2 directly from your cloned repo, you can create a symlink to the packages/cerebral directory into the node_modules directory of your app.

If your app and the cerebral monorepo are in the same folder you can do from inside your app directory:

$ ln -s ../../cerebral/packages/cerebral/ node_modules/

Similar you can link other packages from the packages directory into your app's node_modules folder.

Just remember to unlink the package before installing it from npm:

$ unlink node_modules/cerebral

Running demos

Go to the respective demos/some-demo-folder and run npm start

Testing

You can run all tests in all packages from root:

npm test

Or you can run tests for specific packages by going to package root and do the same:

npm test

Changing the code

When you make a code change you should create a branch first. When the code is changed and backed up by a test you can commit it from the root using:

npm run commit

This will give you a guide to creating a commit message. Then you just push and create a pull request as normal on Github.

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