GigaJS

HTML5 site engine based on the GAIA Flash Framework

Giga leverages the following fine libraries:

• require.js — All JS in Giga is wrapped as an AMD module.
• almond.js — optimized builds are built with the require.js optimizer to include almond
• CreateJS PreloadJS — makes possible the pretty progress meter during site load (etc)
• History.js — as GAIA used SWFAddress, Giga uses History.js
• when.js / Q.js — Promises implementation
• signals.js — "Event" dispatching
• Greensock tweening — GAIA used Greensock (ActionScript) , Giga uses Greensock (JavaScript)
• Zepto / JQuery — Selector engine

Installation

See: Getting Started with GigaJS

Demos!

Module

The demo in /demo/module uses Giga built as a module. Your Site class is responsible for bootstrapping the correct supporting classes: PreloadController ContentRenderer CustomTransitions

See /demo/module/js/Site.js

Live Demos

http://shovemedia.com/giga/site
http://shovemedia.com/giga/module

Site

The demo in /demo/site uses Giga built as a full site.

All the necessary JS is built into one minified file: /site/js/test/Site.min.js (jquery is excluded as you might wish to lean on a cached CDN)

Optimized Build

Setup

You'll need to install these fine tools:

• ant -- build.xml is an ant build script
• node.js is a dependency for most of the build tools.
• java -- The google closure compiler runs on java

You'll need to set the following paths in build.properties:

• yui (yuicompressor), The Yahoo Tools -- used to combine and compress CSS http://http://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/
• r.js (v2.1.5) -- the require.js optimizer script http://requirejs.org/docs/1.0/docs/download.html#rjs
• closure_compiler.jar -- Google's closure compiler Pre-built Closure binaries can be found at http://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/downloads/list
• jslint.jar — optional js linter (highly recommended), you'll need to remove the linting sub-tasks if you forego installing jslint. http://code.google.com/p/jslint4java/
• jsdoc-toolkit.dir — optional jsdoc tool. Used to generate documentation. https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc

Build

from the command-line: ant build

for documentation: ant generateDocs