Status: Seed, work in progress
####Angular frontend for MovieDatabase-API.
Warning: client only. Use REST API from backend MovieDatabase-AngularJS
You need start backend server before start frontend application.
We have two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools and Angular framework code. The tools help us manage and test the application.
- We get the tools we depend upon via
npm
, the [Node package manager][npm]. - We get the Angular code via
bower
, a [client-side code package manager][bower]. - In order to run the end-to-end tests, you will also need to have the [Java Development Kit (JDK)][jdk] installed on your machine. Check out the section on end-to-end testing for more info.
We have preconfigured npm
to automatically run bower
so we can simply do:
npm install
Behind the scenes this will also call bower install
. After that, you should find out that you have
two new folders in your project.
node_modules
- contains the npm packages for the tools we needapp/bower_components
- contains the Angular framework files
Note that the bower_components
folder would normally be installed in the root folder but
MovieDatabase-AngularJS
changes this location through the .bowerrc
file. Putting it in the app
folder
makes it easier to serve the files by a web server.
We have preconfigured the project with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:
npm start
Now browse to the app at [localhost:8000/index.html
][local-app-url].
There are two kinds of tests in the MovieDatabase-AngularJS
application: Unit tests and end-to-end tests.
The MovieDatabase-AngularJS
app comes with unit tests. These are written in [Jasmine][jasmine],
which we run with the [Karma][karma] test runner. We provide a Karma configuration file to run them.
- The configuration is found at
karma.conf.js
. - The unit tests are found next to the code they are testing and have an
_test.js
suffix (e.g.view1_test.js
).
The easiest way to run the unit tests is to use the supplied npm script:
npm test
This script will start the Karma test runner to execute the unit tests. Moreover, Karma will start watching the source and test files for changes and then re-run the tests whenever any of them changes.
You can also ask Karma to do a single run of the tests and then exit.
npm run test-single-run
The MovieDatabase-AngularJS
app comes with end-to-end tests, again written in [Jasmine][jasmine]. These tests
are run with the [Protractor][protractor] End-to-End test runner. It uses native events and has
special features for Angular applications.
Protractor simulates interaction with our web app and verifies that the application responds correctly.
Before starting Protractor, open a separate terminal window and run:
npm start
Once you have ensured that the development web server hosting our application is up and running, you can run the end-to-end tests using the supplied npm script:
npm run protractor
This script will execute the end-to-end tests against the application being hosted on the development server.
Note:
Under the hood, Protractor uses the [Selenium Standalone Server][selenium], which in turn requires
the [Java Development Kit (JDK)][jdk] to be installed on your local machine. Check this by running
java -version
from the command line.
The MovieDatabase-AngularJS
project comes preconfigured with a local development web server. It is a Node.js
tool called [http-server][http-server]. You can start this web server with npm start
, but you may
choose to install the tool globally:
sudo npm install -g http-server
Then you can start your own development web server to serve static files from a folder by running:
http-server -a localhost -p 8000
Alternatively, you can choose to configure your own web server, such as Apache or Nginx. Just
configure your server to serve the files under the app/
directory.