This application allows to browse local and remote packages, install, upload or remove packages.
What will be needed up-front:
- an installation of eXist-db (3.0 or above recommended)
- a nodejs installation (see below for instructions)
- an installation of the Polymer CLI for optimized builds
- Apache Ant configured
IMPORTANT NOTE: JavaScript dependencies are managed by bower which dynamically loads those into a 'bower_components' folder. However to ease the building process, the bower components have been added to the repo. This way it is not necessary to have a NodeJS installation to build PackageManager. If you want to just want to build an un-optimized version you can skip the steps under 'Preparation' and just all 'ant dev-xar'.
- execute
npm installin the root directory to install bower and other tools used for building and development - execute
bower installthe the root directory - make sure you have the Polymer CLI installed if you intend to build a compressed production version
antcreates build/packagemanager-x.x.x.xar
Please note that this task might take a moment as the whole dependency tree is analysed and the compressed version is stored into a single file.
ant dev-xarcreates build/packagemanager-dev-x.x.x.xar
There's additional development support through gulp. Most prominently with
gulp deploy
pushes the local workspace into the app collection in eXist-db on localhost.
gulp watch
synchronizes the local workspace with the app deployed in eXist-db. Changed files will be automatically deployed when stored.
Please note that the app must be installed in eXist-db first before these task work.
Please refer to the tools document for more information on effective use of the bundled tools.