Frontend Development
Getting started
If you’ve used skeletons to initialize your application, you already have a gulpfile, a webpack config file, and a npm package file. To start front-end development, you first need to install nodeJS 6.11.
Then, you can go in your application folder and install all dependencies:
npm install
You will also need to make the gulp command available:
npm install -g [email protected]
Gulp commands
Two gulp commands are available in your application:
gulp `build`
will start building your typescript files, bundle them in a single file, and add cache-busting utilities.
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The second one is
gulp watch
This will start a process listening to all changes made to your files, build them and copy them to your springboard directory. You can set your springboard path with the springboard parameter:
gulp watch --springboard /path/to/my/springboard
This also works with relative paths:
gulp watch --springboard ../my/springboard