This project is a platform to enable higher instituition student collaborate and get real time update to changes in their timetable

To get you started you can simply clone the repository and install the dependencies:

We have two kinds of dependencies in this project: tools and angular framework code. The tools help us manage and test the application.

• We get the tools we depend upon via npm, the node package manager.
• We get the angular code via bower, a client-side code package manager.

We have preconfigured npm to automatically run bower so we can simply do:

npm install 

Behind the scenes this will also call bower install. You should find that you have two new folders in your project.

• node_modules - contains the npm packages for the tools we need
• app/bower_components - contains the angular framework files

Note that the bower_components folder would normally be installed in the root folder but angular-seed changes this location through the .bowerrc file. Putting it in the app folder makes it easier to serve the files by a webserver.

We have preconfigured the project with a simple development web server. The simplest way to start this server is:

npm start 

Now browse to the app at http://localhost:8000/app/index.html.

app/ --> all of the source files for the application app.css --> default stylesheet components/ --> all app specific modules version/ --> version related components version.js --> version module declaration and basic "version" value service version_test.js --> "version" value service tests version-directive.js --> custom directive that returns the current app version version-directive_test.js --> version directive tests interpolate-filter.js --> custom interpolation filter interpolate-filter_test.js --> interpolate filter tests view1/ --> the view1 view template and logic view1.html --> the partial template view1.js --> the controller logic view1_test.js --> tests of the controller view2/ --> the view2 view template and logic view2.html --> the partial template view2.js --> the controller logic view2_test.js --> tests of the controller app.js --> main application module index.html --> app layout file (the main html template file of the app) index-async.html --> just like index.html, but loads js files asynchronously karma.conf.js --> config file for running unit tests with Karma e2e-tests/ --> end-to-end tests protractor-conf.js --> Protractor config file scenarios.js --> end-to-end scenarios to be run by Protractor 

There are two kinds of tests in the angular-seed application: Unit tests and End to End tests.

The angular-seed app comes preconfigured with unit tests. These are written in Jasmine, which we run with the Karma Test Runner. We provide a Karma configuration file to run them.

• the configuration is found at karma.conf.js
• the unit tests are found next to the code they are testing and are named as ..._test.js.

The easiest way to run the unit tests is to use the supplied npm script:

npm test 

This script will start the Karma test runner to execute the unit tests. Moreover, Karma will sit and watch the source and test files for changes and then re-run the tests whenever any of them change. This is the recommended strategy; if your unit tests are being run every time you save a file then you receive instant feedback on any changes that break the expected code functionality.

You can also ask Karma to do a single run of the tests and then exit. This is useful if you want to check that a particular version of the code is operating as expected. The project contains a predefined script to do this:

npm run test-single-run 

The angular-seed app comes with end-to-end tests, again written in Jasmine. These tests are run with the Protractor End-to-End test runner. It uses native events and has special features for Angular applications.

• the configuration is found at e2e-tests/protractor-conf.js
• the end-to-end tests are found in e2e-tests/scenarios.js

Protractor simulates interaction with our web app and verifies that the application responds correctly. Therefore, our web server needs to be serving up the application, so that Protractor can interact with it.

npm start 

In addition, since Protractor is built upon WebDriver we need to install this. The angular-seed project comes with a predefined script to do this:

npm run update-webdriver 

This will download and install the latest version of the stand-alone WebDriver tool.

Once you have ensured that the development web server hosting our application is up and running and WebDriver is updated, you can run the end-to-end tests using the supplied npm script:

npm run protractor 

This script will execute the end-to-end tests against the application being hosted on the development server.

The angular-seed project comes preconfigured with a local development webserver. It is a node.js tool called http-server. You can start this webserver with npm start but you may choose to install the tool globally:

sudo npm install -g http-server 

Then you can start your own development web server to serve static files from a folder by running:

http-server -a localhost -p 8000 

Alternatively, you can choose to configure your own webserver, such as apache or nginx. Just configure your server to serve the files under the app/ directory.

This really depends on how complex your app is and the overall infrastructure of your system, but the general rule is that all you need in production are all the files under the app/ directory. Everything else should be omitted.

Angular apps are really just a bunch of static html, css and js files that just need to be hosted somewhere they can be accessed by browsers.

If your Angular app is talking to the backend server via xhr or other means, you need to figure out what is the best way to host the static files to comply with the same origin policy if applicable. Usually this is done by hosting the files by the backend server or through reverse-proxying the backend server(s) and webserver(s).

Travis CI is a continuous integration service, which can monitor GitHub for new commits to your repository and execute scripts such as building the app or running tests. The angular-seed project contains a Travis configuration file, .travis.yml, which will cause Travis to run your tests when you push to GitHub.

You will need to enable the integration between Travis and GitHub. See the Travis website for more instruction on how to do this.

For more information on AngularJS please check out http://angularjs.org/