The WiConnect WebApp uses the following development tools:
To develop, build or run the WebGUI on your local machine, these will need to be installed. Instructions for installation of these tools:
After pulling the repo, run the following commands in a terminal to download and install required packages:
bower install
npm install
To sucessfully communicate with a remote device, the WiConnect variable http.server.cors_origin needs to be set as described by the WiConnectJS documentation.
If a grunt task fails to run and an error about missing packages is displayed, you may need to run npm install to install any missing packages.
grunt
Will run a local nodejs server on port 5002 (by default - see Development Options) for testing.
grunt watch
Will start a task that listens for file changes, and compile/compress HTML, CSS and JS
Edit config.json to specify:
localDevelopmentIP: address (e.g.12.34.56.89) of a running local development server.localDevelopmentPort: port for local development server (the default grunt server runs on 5002).deviceAddress: address (e.g.12.34.56.78ordevice.local) of the device to communicate with.
The WiConnect WebApp has been primarily developed using Jade templating and LESS CSS pre-processing language
If you are unfamiliar with Jade and wish to write traditional HTML run the following grunt task:
runt no-jade
This will create the files public/html/index.html and public/html/unauthorized.html for development.
Note: Running this grunt task again will overwrite any changes made to index.html and unauthorized.html
If you are unfamiliar with LESS and wish to write traditional CSS run the following grunt task:
grunt no-less
This will create the file public/css/wiconnect.css for development.
Note: Running this grunt task again will overwrite any changes made to wiconnect.css
grunt build
Compiled and compressed JS, CSS and HTML files will be exported to /out
Version, git hash, and build date information are automatically built into the complied JS as an object named _webgui for debugging purposes. To view the version/hash/build-date for reporting a bug, open the developer console in your browser, and type _webgui and press enter to view the current webgui version/hash/build-date information.
If the files public/html/index.html and public/html/unauthorized.html exist, they will be used in the build process, and the changes to the jade files will be ignored.
If the file public/css/wiconnect.css exists, it will be used in the build process, and the changes to the less files will be ignored.
grunt deploy
Put webapp files onto the device specified in config.json by deviceAddress. This requires the default grunt task to already be running in another terminal and accessible at the address specified by localDevelopmentIP in the config file.
Note: grunt deploy will silently fail if the localDevelopmentIP address is not configured correctly in config.json.
grunt release:[type]
Release an official major|minor|patch verion.
When the task is run, the project version is updated and the release will be committed and tagged with the appropriate version, and all files packaged into /out/release/Release-[version].zip
Appropriate uses of the release task:
grunt release:major
grunt release:minor
grunt release:patch
WiConnect Web App, WiConnect JS API Library & WiConnect JS Build System
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The WiConnect Web App, WiConnect JavaScript API and WiConnect JS build system are provided free of charge by Sensors.com. The combined source code, and all derivatives, are licensed by Sensors.com SOLELY for use with devices manufactured by ACKme Networks, or devices approved by Sensors.com.
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