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It's been extended with testing support so you can start writing tests immediately.
This is not the perfect arrangement for your application. It is not designed for production. It exists primarily to get you started quickly with learning and prototyping in Angular
Node.js and npm are essential to Angular development.
Get it now if it's not already installed on your machine.Verify that you are running at least node v4.x.x
and npm 3.x.x
by running node -v
and npm -v
in a terminal/console window.
Older versions produce errors.
We recommend nvm for managing multiple versions of node and npm.
Clone this repo into new project folder (e.g., my-proj
).
git clone https://github.com/creekmore108/JamsAt JamsAt
cd JamsAt
## Install npm packages
> See npm and nvm version notes above
Install the npm packages described in the `package.json` and verify that it works:
```bash
npm install
npm start
The npm start
command first compiles the application,
then simultaneously re-compiles and runs the lite-server
.
Both the compiler and the server watch for file changes.
Shut it down manually with Ctrl-C
.
You're ready to write your application.
We've captured many of the most useful commands in npm scripts defined in the package.json
:
npm start
- runs the compiler and a server at the same time, both in "watch mode".npm run tsc
- runs the TypeScript compiler once.npm run tsc:w
- runs the TypeScript compiler in watch mode; the process keeps running, awaiting changes to TypeScript files and re-compiling when it sees them.npm run lite
- runs the lite-server, a light-weight, static file server, written and maintained by John Papa and Christopher Martin with excellent support for Angular apps that use routing.
Here are the test related scripts:
npm test
- compiles, runs and watches the karma unit testsnpm run e2e
- run protractor e2e tests, written in JavaScript (*e2e-spec.js)
These tools are configured for specific conventions described below.
It is unwise and rarely possible to run the application, the unit tests, and the e2e tests at the same time. We recommend that you shut down one before starting another.
TypeScript unit-tests are usually in the app
folder. Their filenames must end in .spec
.
Look for the example app/app.component.spec.ts
.
Add more .spec.ts
files as you wish; we configured karma to find them.
Run it with npm test
That command first compiles the application, then simultaneously re-compiles and runs the karma test-runner. Both the compiler and the karma watch for (different) file changes.
Shut it down manually with Ctrl-C
.
Test-runner output appears in the terminal window.
We can update our app and our tests in real-time, keeping a weather eye on the console for broken tests.
Karma is occasionally confused and it is often necessary to shut down its browser or even shut the command down (Ctrl-C
) and
restart it. No worries; it's pretty quick.
E2E tests are in the e2e
directory, side by side with the app
folder.
Their filenames must end in .e2e-spec.ts
.
Look for the example e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
.
Add more .e2e-spec.js
files as you wish (although one usually suffices for small projects);
we configured protractor to find them.
Thereafter, run them with npm run e2e
.
That command first compiles, then simultaneously starts the Http-Server at localhost:8080
and launches protractor.
The pass/fail test results appear at the bottom of the terminal window.
A custom reporter (see protractor.config.js
) generates a ./_test-output/protractor-results.txt
file
which is easier to read; this file is excluded from source control.
Shut it down manually with Ctrl-C
.
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