Reactive RESTful Angular 1.5 application with Redux & RxJS

A RESTful master-detail application built using Angular 1.5, ng-Redux and RxJS 5

Stack

• NPM
• Webpack
• Angular 1.5
• Angular UI Router (with self-registering components)
• ES 6 / Babel (Module Loading)
• ng-redux (Redux)
• @reactivex/rxjs (RxJS Observables)
• SASS
• Tests
  • Karma (Test Runner, http://karma-runner.github.io/)
  • Mocha (Test Framework, http://mochajs.org/)
  • Chai (BDD/TSS assertion library, http://chaijs.com/)

To add:

• Jade
• TypeScript

Dependencies

You must have node v >= 4.0 and npm installed (via brew install node or NodeJS.org);

Install a few dependencies globally::

$ npm install -g json-server $ npm install -g babel $ npm install -g webpack $ npm install -g webpack-dev-server $ npm install -g eslint

Getting Started

There are two main parts to this application. The first is the server which we are using json-server to simulate a REST api. The second part is the Angular application which we will use webpack-dev-server to display.

To get started, run the commands below to install the dependencies

  $ npm install

Then navigate to http://localhost:3001 in your browser.

Create a JS bundle with Webpack::

  $ npm run build

Start the Webpack development server on 'localhost:3000':

  $ npm run start

Run tests:

  $ npm run test

Linting:

  $ npm run lint

Cleaning:

  $ npm run clean

HTML Webpack Plugin

Installation:

  $ npm install html-webpack-plugin --save-dev

webpack.config.js:

  var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')

  module.exports = {
    ...
    plugins: [
      new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
        title: 'Website Starter',
        template: 'src/index.html',
        minify: {
          collapseWhitespace: true,
          removeComments: true,
          removeRedundantAttributes: true,
          removeScriptTypeAttributes: true,
          removeStyleLinkTypeAttributes: true
        }
      })
    ],
  }

ES 6 Imports

Default import:

  import localName from 'src/my_lib';

Namespace import: imports the module as an object (with one property per named export)

  import * as my_lib from 'src/my_lib';

Named imports:

  import { name1, name2 } from 'src/my_lib';

Renaming named imports:

  // Renaming: import `name1` as `localName1`
  import { name1 as localName1, name2 } from 'src/my_lib';

Empty import: only loads the module, doesn’t import anything. The first such import in a program executes the body of the module.

  import 'src/my_lib';

Source: http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_modules.html

Imports for broken modules:

  require('script!objectpath/lib/ObjectPath');

Source: https://webpack.github.io/docs/shimming-modules.html

SASS Loader

Installation:

  $ npm install sass-loader --save-dev

Webpack Configuration (webpack.config.js):

  module.exports = {
    ...
    module: {
      loaders: [
        ...
        { test: /\.scss$/, loaders: ["style", "css?sourceMap", "sass?sourceMap"]},
      ]
    },
    devtool: 'source-map'
  }

Javascript:

  import Styles from './styles.scss';

SASS (styles.scss):

  body {
      padding-top: 80px;
  }

Travis CI

• Enable Travis for repository

.travis.yml:

  language: node_js
  node_js:
  - 4.2.1
  cache:
    directories:
      - node_modules
  before_install:
    - export CHROME_BIN=chromium-browser
    - export DISPLAY=:99.0
    - sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start
  install:
  - npm install -g babel
  - npm install -g webpack
  - npm install -g webpack-dev-server
  - npm install -g eslint
  - npm install
  script:
  - npm run test
  notifications:
    email:
    - [email protected]

webpack.config.js::

...

ESLint

Installation:

  $ npm install eslint -g

Sublime Text 3 Installation: https://github.com/roadhump/SublimeLinter-eslint

Sources

• Webpack: https://github.com/faassen/bundle_example
• Angular: https://github.com/angular-class/NG6-starter
• Angular: http://angular-tips.com/blog/2015/06/using-angular-1-dot-x-with-es6-and-webpack/
• Webpack and Babel6: https://github.com/rauschma/webpack-babel-demo
• https://github.com/onehungrymind/fem-ng2-ngrx-app
• https://github.com/kitconcept/webpack-starter-angular