goWidgets

AngularJs Based Dashboards

Getting Started

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

Prerequisites

You need git to clone the goWidgets repository. You can get git from http://git-scm.com/.

We also use a number of node.js tools to initialize and test goWidgets. You must have node.js and its package manager (npm) installed. You can get them from http://nodejs.org/.

Clone goWidgets

Clone the goWidgets repository using [git][git]:

git clone https://github.com/gauravmakkar/goWidgets.git
cd goWidgets

Install 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][npm].
• We get the angular code via bower, a [client-side code package manager][bower].

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
• goWidgets/bower_components - contains the angular framework files

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

Run the Application

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 localhost:8000/demo