juliantcook / codebar-js

Project for starting out with html/css/js

Code bar initial JavaScript project guide / starting point

Dependencies

Install Node / Npm https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Setup

Clone this repo

git clone [e-mail]:juliantcook/codebar-js.git
cd codebar-js

Install the project dependencies

npm install

Serve your files locally

npm run server

The above will run http-server and serve files inside ./public folder.

Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser to see them.

Note: the npm run server command is defined in package.json under scripts

How to's

Initialise your own Node project

In a terminal

# create the directory
mkdir codebar-js
# change to the directory
cd codebar-js
# initialise package.json file (a file to describe your npm project)
npm init
# install a library to serve files locally (--save will add the library to package.json after it is downloaded)
npm install http-server --save

Initialise git

Initialise a git repository so we can have a history of our file changes

# initialises the git repository
git init
# create a .gitignore file to tell git which files to ignore. Add 'node_modules' to that file. Can be done in any text editor or using the following command
echo 'node_modules' > .gitignore
# add the rest of the files to be tracked by git (the dot means everything in the folder)
git add .
# commit the files along with a message
git commit -m 'first commit'

External tutorials

• git - the simple guide - http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/

TODOs