Local doc site point to local esri-leaflet.js

[gavinr]

Sometimes as part of smoke-testing it's a good step to run all the sample pages in the documentation against a new build that of esri-leaflet.js that you have locally. I haven't found a great way to do this - is there a method to do this that I'm missing?

If not, it would be nice if we could modify the esri-leaflet-doc code so that it's easy to point your local build of the documentation pages temporarily to use a local esri-leaflet.js file.

[pmacMaps]

I would add that it would be nice to test a local build of doc pages against all of the official esri-leaflet plugins. I ran into this issue with a recent update I made to the geocoders plugin.

It looks like this functionality may already exist:

• localSource setting in devSiteData.json
• If localSource is true, then it's expecting the individual to have loaded certain files. See header.hbs

[jgravois]

@pmacMaps is right. there's definitely room for improvement there.

[gavinr]

@jgravois looks like by default it looks at /js/linked/leaflet-dist/... ... how does that folder get created? Or is that a manually created symlink or something?

for my situation, i'd like that to link to http://localhost:5000/dist/esri-leaflet-debug.js ... maybe I'll add a localSourcePath property setting to devSiteData.json

[jgravois]

is that a manually created symlink

exactly. it's just a hacky solution I came up with before I knew about npm link. anything you feel like doing to improve the DX would be appreciated.