I am new to grunt, I am not able to understand initial setup. What I have done all is installed node and grunt and this is no where related to my project. My question is
1. how to add grunt to my project. I am using angular project. Do I have to add grunt inside my project folder? if yes, Where should I add and how should I add?
2. Many of the document says to update gruntfile.js. When I search I
can see so many gruntfile.js inside grunt\node_modules folder. Which
gruntfile.js file I should modify?
Grunt doesn't actually go into your angular project. Only libraries that are meant to show up in your client's browser (i.e. to actually run the webapp) should be injected into Angular.
Think of grunt as a tool to help you manage the build system outside of your angular project.
You could run npm install grunt --save-dev and it would create a package.json file with information regarding your dependencies.
www.egghead.io has some great resources on learning Grunt and Angular, as does http://build-podcast.com/.
Consider also looking into npm, gulp, webpack and other alternatives.
Step1 - Install node and npm
Step2 - npm install -g grunt-cli
Step3 - Create Gruntfile.js in your project root folder. Click here for sample file
Step4 - register a task
Step5 - Run Grunt
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I am working on a AngularJS project that uses bower as package manager and gulp to inject the dependencies into the index.html file. I am not very familiar with both of these tools.
I now want to use AWS AppSync, but it is not available as a bower package.
Currently the AWS SDK is specified as a file dependency in bower.json as:
"aws-sdk": "./thirdparty/script/aws-sdk-2.69.0.min.js",
When I install aws-appsync with npm npm install aws-appsync the node_modules folder for aws-appsync contains multiple js files in the lib directory.
How can I include these with bower or is there another way to do this altogether?
I am currently unable to change much of the build and dependency management process so any suggestions working with the current tools would be much appreciated.
Thanks for reaching out!
The Bower team itself has recommended that people migrate to npm or yarn, and so aws-appsync has not been pushed to Bower.
It might be worth investigating whether you can install directly from github using something like...
bower install <github url>.git
... and install directly from the appsync-sdk github repo.
In the end I hacked together an interim solution until I can move the whole project over to npm and browserify.
I added the aws-appsync package using npm and required it in a new file. This file is then passed through a gulp task that uses the browserify plugin. The added file is then included into the rest of the build process as before.
My project is going from standalone to Web, Our new WebSite is getting created in AngularJS so Protractor is the tool selected for Test Automation.
I want to Integrate Typescript with dependencies of Jasmine and Node so that I don't get errors such as
cannot find name Describe
cannot find name it
cannot find name Expect
Can Anyone tell me how to add Jasmine and Protractor dependencies, so that when I hit ctrl + space i'll get all options available.
I have installed Typescript. And I am getting protractor dependencies such as browser, element, by etc.
What should i do for describe,it,expect (Jasmine stuffs) ?
I use Visual Studio Code everyday to write my scripts, it's my current favourite editor for Protractor because of its built in support for TypeScript!
Here are the following things which can come into my mind which could help you setup your framework-
Download the latest VS Code version - https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Install typescript globally npm install -g typescript
Install protractor globally npm install -g protractor
Create your project folder
Setup you project folder for git, node and typescript -
npm init -f // will create default package.json stating its nodejs project
git init // will create .git file, you project is now git project
tsc --init // will create tsconfig.json stating its typescript project
Install typings and dev dependencies-
npm install --save-dev protractor // this will install protractor as a dev dependency
npm install --save-dev typescript // this will install typescript as a dev dependency
npm install --save-dev #types/jasmine // jasmine typings
npm install --save-dev #types/node // node typings
At this point you have setup your basic protractor-typescript project and you can see all the typings and dependencies in package.json. Now you are good to write your typed scripts :).
Now compile your scripts by running -
tsc or tsc -w
After successfull compilation all your javascript files would be generated.
The run protractor
protractor config.js
You can also setup your vs code for debugging with protractor which I have mentioned here - Protractor -VS Code Debugging
For more details pls refer the TypeScript Tutorial, Protractor API
The Typescript error you are observing this is due to VS Code not recognizing global typescript 2.0 version.
To solve this open vscode go to preferences--> user settings --> settings.json will be opened and enter the highlighted path as shown
Save your file and restart VSCode now you are good to go :)
I agree with the answers given. Just want to share a hack with you.
You don't need to transpile your Typescript codes to JavaScript anymore.
Create a launch.js file
require('ts-node').register({
compilerOptions: {
module: 'commonjs'
},
disableWarnings: true,
fast: true
});
exports.config = require('./config/protractor.conf.ts').config;
And kick start protractor execution like:
> protractor launch
You can save yourself from the headache of transpiling every time you make a change to typescript files.
Happy testng!
First time user of npm and bower. I am able to install packages correctly but I am not sure how the dependencies work? As an example, I did "npm install angularjs" in my application root which created a folder "node_modules/angularjs/" with some files in it. I can also see that there is a package.json file within the angularjs folder, and it looks like it has not been processed as there is numerous packages listed in it and not installed.
Long story short, should I install all these packages manually or is there a built in feature that npm/bower can also process these sets of dependencies?
UPDATE:
I greatly lack the ability to ask precise questions, I apologise to those who have answered and did not give the correct sypnosis.
What I expect to happen:
Using npm or bower, I want to clarify that if I do an install of one of their packages, will it automatically also install the new package's dependancies or would I need to do a npm/bower install for each of the packages.json or bower.json files manually?
What I did to try make it work:
Created folder D:\Websites\TestSite
Within the folder through CMD, I did a "npm init" and ran through the guide
I followed that up with a "npm install angularjs"
A new folder was created D:\Websites\TestSite\node_modules\angularjs and within this folder there was a "index.js" and package.json file
Opening index.js I get a "require("angular");" and module.exports = window.angular.
The package.json file contains a number of dependancies which has not been installed.
My Result:
As per my expectations, npm install in point 3 above did not install the dependancies of the package.json file after it installed angularjs.
I am not sure but I assume that the index.js file needs to be included in my html and that it required the requirejs library initiated? If this is the case, then requirejs (which I do not have installed on my site) should be a dependancy for angularjs to work, and should be installed prior to giving me the ability to try and initiate it?
Am I missing a step or misunderstanding the functionality of NPM/Bower? Thank you for your patience!
Npm and Bower are great tools for managing your dependencies, i'll try to make it clear in a few words.
In general npm is used for managing your back-end dependencies and Bower is responsible for your front end dependencies.
There are 2 config files:
package.json, here are listed your dependencies that are not used in browser(e.g. bower, grunt). To install all dependencies in package.json run npm install.
Bower.json, here will be listed your "in browser" dependencies(e.g angular, jQuery). Run bower install to install all dependencies listed here in bower_components
You can find a extended guide i wrote here.
I have started working on a new project in node js and I have generated the project using yeoman's angular fullstack generator. And now I would like to add a new bower dependency and a new node dependency. What is the best way to do this? Should I simply add the dependency in bower.json and package.json or should I run a specific command?
You don't need yeoman to install those dependancies for you. Instead, yeoman gives you an environment with everything set up to use tihngs like bower, npm, grunt etc. You can add additional dependencies like you normally would using npm or bower.
for bower (http://bower.io/) -
bower install -S <name-of-your-dependancy>
that command downloads the code for you, and it also adds a reference to it in your bower.json
similar for node (https://www.npmjs.com/) -
npm install -S <name-of-your-dependancy>
use npm packet manager, to install components, like if you want to install cordova, use:
npm install -g cordova
For installing AngularJs, follow the official site guide lines:
https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/started
I am trying to use yeoman, grunt and bower for my AngularJS development on Windows 7. I am using GitBash to run the commands. I did the following steps
Installed node.js (npm --version 1.4.14)
npm install -g yeoman grunt-cli bower
npm install -g generator-angular
cd c:/wamp/www
mkdir test-ang
cd test-ang
yo angular
When the scaffolding process is complete, I always find that my bower_components folder is outside app. Due to this my index.html is displayed without any styles and javascript as they link to "bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css". same thing happends for js files too. If I change it to ../bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css" in index.html, then things look fine. But doing grunt serve changes the index.html again
I tried to manually move bower_components inside app folder and edit .bowerrc file accordingly, but it did not help either. Also another interesting thing is, if I do the above listed steps in Virtual box ( running CentOs ) at my work machine, then the bower_components folder is automatically inside app folder.
Has anyone faced this before? Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.