Front end assets for the Tax platform

Unless you're making changes to the frontend assets, you'll most likely be using service-manager to serve assets to your frontends. The ASSETS_FRONTEND service is responsible for serving released artifacts and can be started with:

$ sm --start ASSETS_FRONTEND

• node.js
• grunt

The command below will kick off a local node.js server on a predefined port(9032). This serves the assets with sourcemaps via the grunt task runner.

$ ./server.sh dev

The grunt Karma test runner is used to run our frontend tests with the command:

$ ./server.sh test

Compiles the assets for production.

$ ./server.sh build

Compiles the assets for npm.

$ ./server.sh build --release=$VERSION_NUMBER

(Where $VERSION_NUMBER is a string in semver format. i.e. 1.50.0)

GOV.UK Elements pulled in using the Subtree merge strategy.

$ git submodule init && git submodule update
$ ./update_govuk_elements.sh

1. Fork this repo
2. Create a feature branch
3. Bump the package.json version number
4. Push to your fork
5. Open a pull request back to this repo