Project skeleton
Behind the scenes, we use Babel to compile, Browserify and Watchify to bundle, and Uglify to minify our code.
You should be running Node and NPM.
This project assumes you have three global dependencies: Browserify, Watchify and Uglify
If you don't, install them:
npm install -g browserify watchify uglify-js
Clone this project:
git clone https://github.com/CityOfDetroit/iet-template.git
cd iet-template
npm install
Run npm run watch and open public/index.html in your browser.
This is listening for changes in src/main.js and will automatically rebuild, so you just need to refresh your browser to see changes.
Run npm run deploy. This pipes src/main.js through Uglify to minify it, writes to public/bundle.js, and then publishes to gh-pages.
Run npm test. This runs mocha test plus a Babel compiler and looks for test files in the test/ dir.
Check out Mocha.js docs for how to write tests. Mocha is set up here to work with Node.js' built-in assert module and should.js.