CommonJS Mocha testable shared JavaScript library. This project is a dependency for the following projects:
Share as many code as possible in both Web and Mobile JS applications. This PoC library is set up in such a way that e.g. the same business logic and state, but e.g. different persistency, audioplayer or Google analytics implementations can be applied in both web and app projects.
###Why a shared JS codebase
- Just like we use Titanium to develop apps for both iOS + Android, why not use JS to โฆ
- Take away inconsistencies between mobile app and web app logic.
- Keep things DRY, why write something in JS twice?
- Reduce TCO. Cut costs for both initial development + AM
###Objectives
- Keep business logic in one place
- Unit test business logic once
- Leverage context specific technologies:
- HTML5 BB Web App: It should be possible to use BB plugins like LayoutManager + Stickit
- Ti Alloy App: It should be possible to use Alloy views and Alloy MV binding.
- Keep it very simple! With very little, and no exotic, dependencies.
###Setup insctructions Setting up this project would require the following:
$ npm install
####proxy shim Apart from that to load our dependencies via node require, we need a shim for Mocha testing. To achieve this, we made a very cheap shim leveraging the way node uses node_modules as a search path when searching for modules. For this reason in node_modules we create a custom proxy.js which serves as a proxy of its own for our local project utils/proxy.js module. We explicitly added this file to git while ignoring everything else inside the node_modules folder.
###Test instructions Either use the repository grunt tasks to test the library or use.
$ mocha
Please find a list of the main libraries and modules used in this project:
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