The GDE App is an application that aims to help Google Developer Experts track their activities and give Googlers a way to analize the most impactful activity types.
The application is mainly composed by 2 parts:
The backend code can be found on the feature/appengine
branch, the current version of the Web App can be found in the branch feature\material_design
.
New web app will be developed in this repository: https://github.com/GoogleDeveloperExperts/gde-app-web
First of all download the get the branch with Git.
N.B. As of 2014-10-17 the Front End Code on Git has harcoded keys and backend URLs, so remember to change those if you want to deploy your copy.
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The Web App is all JS and HTML, so you can run it in any web server or, as in the production environment, drop the code inside a Google Drive folder shared "Public".
Download the code with Git, and use your most loved editor.
N.B. As of 2014-10-17 the Front End branch has all the polymer web components manually added and it's using polymer 0.3.3.
After the implementation of issue 57 is done, we are going to use bower
to keep components and libraries fresh
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As stated before the Code is all JS and HTML, the application use Angular and Polymer, but the scripts and components are inside the Git branch. Feel free the IDE you love most to work edit the source, [Chrome Dev Editor] (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-develop/pnoffddplpippgcfjdhbmhkofpnaalpg) is used and endorsed by @Smokybob and works :D Bower will be required in the near future to keep dependencies updated and avoid having them in git. Vulcanize is not currently used but will be during future deployment in the "production" environment
Bower is already available in CDE, vulcanize require developer mode enabled on ChromeBooks and needs to be manually installed via shell (ping @Smokybob if needed TODO: gist for the manual install on ChromeBooks).
Want to Contribute? Awesome!!! and thanks.
All GDEs are most welcome to contribute to this project. Two main pieces of the app are Back-End (API) and Front-End (Angular+Polymer app).
Since app won't run locally (issues with authentication), first thing you'll have to do is to contact Cesar Anton and/or Mauro Solcia. They will create a Google Drive folder for you so that you can easily prototype and test your version of the app. After you are happy with your improvements you can submit them to the main repository by forking it and creating a pull request with the changes.
Use the Git issue tracker, please check if the feature already has a dedicated issue, and provide as much information, links, steps to implement the feature.
We have no rules set in stone on how to contribute with code, but we agree on a couple of things: