Build fails

[grossbart]

I followed the instructions outlined in the readme to build this project and serve locally, but wasn't able to get Polestar to build correctly. Angular complains that vlui is missing:

Uncaught Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module polestar due to:
Error: [$injector:modulerr] Failed to instantiate module vlui due to:
Error: [$injector:nomod] Module 'vlui' is not available! You either misspelled the module name or forgot to load it. If registering a module ensure that you specify the dependencies as the second argument.
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.15/$injector/nomod?p0=vlui

I then tried to build vega-lite (which I cloned as per the instructions to be next to the polestar folder) and wasn't able to build that project either (Error: Cannot find module 'datalib/src/bin').

Now I'm a bit at a loss on where to start trying to fix things …

The reason I actually tried to build the project was to provide my class with access to Polestar for a custom dataset (for which the import through the demo application doesn't work for some reason – not as a hosted file, not as pasted CSV). So if this build issue is hard to fix, could you maybe recommend a combination of versions of these libraries that works well to build and that I could use?

In case you can't reproduce this build problem in a fresh install, I'll be happy to provide any log files needed. Thanks!

[kanitw]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. I have just done some refactoring last week and probably introduced these errors by mistake. I will try to take a look at these sunday night or monday and let you know!\

–Kanit

[kanitw]

I've updated some dependencies in bower.json. If you pull and run bower install again, polestar should work now.

I also updated the readme and remove the need to clone vega-lite into the same folder.

Please let me know if you still run into problem.

[grossbart]

Thanks a lot! Works as expected now and I was able to achieve what I needed :+1:

I also like that the setup with the _visrec folder is no longer necessary.

[kanitw]

@naehrstoff You're welcome! By the way, I'm just wonder what class are you using polestar for? :)

[grossbart]

We're doing a workshop for journalists and Polestar is perfect to quickly get some insights into the dataset and process of looking at a dataset from different angles. I'll also show some other tools from the Vega suite :)

[domoritz]

@naehrstoff That's awesome. Let us know if there is anything we can help with!