angular2-seed-advanced

Please note: This is very much a wip.

An advanced seed project for Angular 2 apps grown out of Minko Gechev's angular2-seed. This seed inherits all the genetics of its parent and will continually grow alongside it mirroring any changes to the underlying roots.

Free Advice: If your project is intended to target a single platform (i.e, web only), then angular2-seed is likely more than suitable for your needs. However if your project goals are to target multiple platforms (web, native mobile and native desktop), with powerful out of the box library support and highly configurable/flexible testing options, then you might want to keep reading.

Features

Provides all features available in angular2-seed with the following enhancements:

Integration with:

lodash
ng2-translate for i18n

Coming Soon...

ngrx/store for state management (Redux)
NativeScript bootstrap ability for cross platform mobile apps.
Electron bootstrap ability for cross platform desktop apps.
angular cli to help in component, service, pipe creation, etc. (it does not use it for the build)
provider for LocalStorage (abstraction for IndexedDB, WebSQL, localStorage, perhaps a port of localForage)
sophisticated setup for Service Worker
integration with ng2-bootstrap

Enhanced development workflow

Decorators for components which reduce boilerplate for common component setups
Introduction of frameworks to help organize your code for different platforms:
- app.framework: your shared application architecture code
- desktop.framework: coming soon... Electron specific code
- mobile.framework: coming soon...NativeScript specific code
- web.framework: web specific code
- test.framework: test specific code providing conveniences to make testing your code easier and faster

Enhanced testing support options

mocks for various services
configurable provider blocks for easy test setup of common application providers
- tired of setting up similar providers over and over again for different tests?
- configure a reusable test provider which can be configured on a case-by-base basis
- see example here
- watch video explanation coming soon
helpers for end-to-end (e2e, integration) tests
convenient shorthand to reduce test setup boilerplate and enhance speed of writing tests
- are your test cases buried by multiple import lines requiring you to scroll just to get to the substance of the test?
- removes noise allowing you to better focus on the substance of the test
- provides full intellisense support
- allows your team to add unique shorthands for various testing scenarios specific to your application needs
  - see example here coming soon
  - watch video explanation coming soon
- plays nice with tslint options like "no-unused-variable": true as the api hangs off a plain Object instead of globals
  - what's the value of that you ask? have you ever isolated a test with iit or ddescribe but didn't import those or vice versa, used iit leaving an unused it now in your tests? yeah, tslint will be all over you :/
  - avoids unused variable warnings altogether in tests since you are always using a valid key from the shorthand Object
- see example here
- watch video explanation coming soon

How to start

Note that this seed project requires node v4.x.x or higher and npm 2.14.7.

You must have ts-node installed as global. If you don't, use:

npm install -g ts-node

In order to start the seed use:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular2-seed-advanced.git
cd angular2-seed-advanced

# install the project's dependencies
npm install
# watches your files and uses livereload by default
npm start
# api document for the app
npm run docs

# dev build
npm run build.dev
# prod build
npm run build.prod

Using the experimental hot loader support

If you want to try the experimental hot loading support use:

npm start -- --hot-loader true

Note that the hot loader is still in experimental phase of development and there are some missing features. If you experience any issues with it report them at here.

Does not rely on any global dependencies.

Table of Content

Introduction
How to start
- Using the experimental hot loader support
Table of Content
Configuration
How to extend?
Running test
Contributing
Change Log
License

Configuration

Default application server configuration

var PORT             = 5555;
var LIVE_RELOAD_PORT = 4002;
var DOCS_PORT        = 4003;
var APP_BASE         = '/';

Configure at runtime

npm start -- --port 8080 --reload-port 4000 --base /my-app/

Running test

npm test

# Debug - In two different shell windows
npm run build.test.watch      # 1st window
npm run karma.start           # 2nd window

# e2e (aka. end-to-end, integration) - In three different shell windows
npm start
# npm run webdriver-update <- You may need to run this the first time
npm run webdriver-start
npm run e2e

# e2e live mode - Protractor interactive mode
# Instead of last command above, you can use:
npm run e2e-live

You can learn more about Protractor Interactive Mode here

Contributing

Please see the CONTRIBUTING file for guidelines.

Changelog

You can follow the Angular 2 change log here.

License

MIT

matt4446 / angular2-seed-advanced