aspc-2016's Introduction

ASPC-2016 Danger Room How-to

What does the solution do

The main solutions is the Danger Room. The Danger Room is created to provide situational awareness for our heroes and help them carry out Operations (e.g. killing villains, saving the world ++). There are three main artefacts

Danger Room Frontpage: Map of all operations, Features heroes and some KPI's for the heroes
Hero Page: Provides key information about the heroes
Operation rooms: This is where the collaboration and reporting happens

Overview of repository

Deploy: Pre and Post-scripts, dynamically retrieved by the script
Resources: Files used during provisioning of Operation Rooms
SiteAssets: Typescript, LESS, images etc. for the Danger Room Solution
SitePages: Pages to be provisioned
SiteTemplates: The template for the Operation rooms - built with js-sites-core, a JavaScript driven templating engine
Theme: The composed look for the site
misc: Tools not in the core solution. Datamining tool to get Marvel data and Office Add-in.
typings: Typings for TypeScript
build.ps1: Main build and deployment script

Development guidelines

CSS and JavaScript files are forbidden, and will be deleted after deployment. You should write LESS and TypeScript

Dependencies

npm
bower
tsd
lessc
TypeScript
OfficePnP PowerShell

Install the solution

After you've gotten the latest from Git, you only have to run build.ps1
Run build.ps1 with the parameter Url to your site collection. The scirpt will do the following
- Get bower packages
- Run Pre-Build scripts
- Build LESS files
- Build TypeScript files
- Provision the template
- Run Post-Build scripts
- Delete all JavaScript and CSS files