This codebase was a transition step before we were able to re-implement Kano World entirely in Polymer. As of January 2019, it has been completely superseded.
The dependencies of the project itself are managed with bower, the dependencies for the build/dev tasks are managed with npm modules.
A good way to start working on the project is to run:
npm install or yarn
bower install
To allow the fastest onboarding possible on this project, no build task is necessary to make it run.
Just starting a webserver with the folder src as root and a SPA strategy will allow you to run the website.
For convenience sake, a gulp task watch was created. It uses browser sync and reload the pages everytime a change is made.
Update: Since we need the app player from Kano Code, a small build step is necessary to develop on this project.
Start with gulp dev to populate the www folder, then gulp watch will keep it up to date with the src folder as you change it.
If you create new files, don't forget to rerun gulp dev as gulp watch doesn't register new files to watch
To build for production, we use gulp.
Just run gulp build, the task will take care of bundling the files, taking care of creating shards for views and low usage components.
It also babelify the js, compress the HTML/CSS/JS and generate a service worker/appcache manifest.
This task also uses the env variable NODE_ENV to determine which config file to bundle. See src/js/config.html.
As for now, this website lives in parallel of the previous Kano World. To keep the same subdomain but show different websites, a server side logic
was configured. It means that to avoid conflict of assets, we need to put this website in a subfolder. This is why the build task also add the prefix /new/ to all assets.