bl-web

bl-web is a customer centered application for Boklisten.no. It is basicly a online store with some caveats. This README only describes development and technical detail. For a deep-dive into the application please read our documentation.

• Requirements
• How to run
• Development
  • NPM scripts
  • Build files
  • Versioning
  • Branches

Requirements

• NodeJS v8.0 or higher
• Typescript v3.0 or higher
• NPM v6.14.0 or higher
• bl-api v1.11.2 or higher

How to run

1. Clone this repo to your own computer git clone https://github.com/boklisten/bl-web
2. Navigate into the newly created bl-web folder
3. Install npm modules npm i
4. Ensure that bl-api is running on http://localhost:1337
   • No content will be available in bl-web if bl-api is not running.
   • You will not be able to login if bl-api is not running.
5. Start application locally with npm run watch
6. You should now be able to view bl-web on http://localhost:4200
   • the content will auto-update if you do changes to the code

Development

NPM scripts

npm run watch

Runs the application locally. You can view the application on localhost:4200.

npm run build

Builds the application with angular --configuartion set to the environment variable ANGULAR_ENV.

npm run extract-i18n

Extracts all i18n tags from all the html files and puts them into three differnet xlf-file under ./src/locale.

npm run postinstall

This script used by the server on Heroku before hosting it.

Build files

There are a number of build files and settings files that are not purly from Angular. To develop bl-web it is a good thing to know what they are.

./Procfile

The Procfile is the Heroku settings file. Your can read more about it here.

./xliffmerge.json

This is the settings file for i18n the translator ngx-i18nsupport. Read more.

./server.js

This is the server file. It is a script for running the bl-web application on the heroku server. Very simple node+express script.

./src/hmr.ts

This file is for Angulars Hot Module Replacement. Read more.

Commit messages

We use the same commit message scheme as Anglular. You can read more about it here.

Versioning

bl-web is versioned using semantic versioning meaning MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. Ex: 1.9.3.

Branches

There are two main branches master and dev. You should use dev for all development and treat master as the public live version.

master

This branch should be treated as the production branch and should not have failing code.

When you push code to master the code is also pushed to our production environment on Heroku. Be aware that any commit you push to master will be viewable and executed on our live production server. The master branch is currently running on boklisten.no.

You should always update the version when you push to master. Read more about versions

dev

This branch should be treated as a development branch, it should always be runnable but does not need to be at the same standard as master.

When you push to dev the code is also pushed to our dev environment on Heroku. The dev branch is currently running on web.test.boklisten.no