Angular Gulp baseline build
This repository contains a baseline Gulp build for AngularJs development, applied to a sample test app.
The build is as simple as possible (less than 100 lines excluding comments), but still includes all the features that an AngularJs project will most likelly need:
- integration with bower - to ensure all the latest dependencies are present
- Sass (with source maps) - for building more maintainable stylesheets. The plugin used uses libsass and does not introduce a dependency in the Ruby tool chain
- unit testing / integration testing with Karma, Jasmine and PhantomJs
- cache busting - to prevent cache problems in all environments, dev tools opened or closed, etc.
- template cache pre-population - to prevent that each template causes one extra HTTP request
- jshint - the de-facto Javascript code quality checker
- concatenation
- browserify integration - for using the CommonJs require('module') synchronous import syntax and avoid maintaining config files with dependencies
- Javascript source maps
- Angular-friendly Javascript minification
- sprite generation
- a development web server with live reload, that re-loads the initial page of the project
A blog post concerning this build is available here
Installation instructions
First make sure Gulp is globally installed, by running:
npm install -g gulp
After cloning the project, run the following commands:
npm install
gulp
gulp dev
This will start the development server, the TODO sample app should be available at the following url:
http://localhost:8000/dist/index.html