I am using yeoman as a scaffolding tool for my app and using yeoman angular generator for the same.
While scaffolding the app yeoman asks me whether I want to install SASS or not, but it doesn't give any option to include less and related grunt tasks for that.
Please help me if I am missing something here.
Here are the steps that I am following to scaffold my app.
npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-angular
yo angular
Also tell me if it is possible to install the less related tasks and files separately after using the yeoman angular generator as a scaffolding tool.
First installed the grunt-contrib-less module.
npm install grunt-contrib-less --save-dev
Copy the less folder from "bower_components/bootstrap" in the "app/styles" folder. Than you need to update Gruntfile.
Add the following task:
...
less: {
development: {
options: {
compress: true,
optimization: 2
},
files: {
"app/styles/your_bootstrap.css": "app/styles/less/bootstrap.less"
}
}
},
...
You need to load the less task.
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-less');
And as you can see this made a new your_bootstrap.css in your styles folder which will be linked in your index.html.
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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!
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
After installing packages via npm, such as:
$ npm install bootstrap
or
$ npm install angular
these are saved inside the "node_modules" by default.
How do you access them (link to them) from an html page?
You can't possibly do "href="/node_modules/", so what's the solution?
I imagine something like:
var angular = require("angular");
but I'm not sure.
Try to use bower, or yeoman.
bower - will simplify the process to include js libs
yeoman - will help you to build projects with the the libraries that you need.
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
Using this generator to scaffold a backbone app gives me insanely big project of 11000 files. Probably because some of the generators are included in the project itself.
Is there an option to keep them generators global? The way Yeoman v0.9.6 was built? Or is it a bad practice?
Enlighten me would ya?
--using yeoman 1 beta 5
You can install the generators globally:
npm install -g generator-mocha generator-backbone
But your dev dependencies for bower and npm will be added to your projects local file structure.
node: <project_root>/node_modules
bower: <project_root>/app/bower_components
They do take up a bunch of space but at least the scaffolded .gitignore filters them out of your commits =)