generator-i-want-nice-ng-cordova v0.4.4

Next Generation Angular + Cordova Generator

Experimental Yeoman generator for your next and next-gen Angular 1.x or 2 + Cordova project - lets you quickly set up a project with recent technologies in mind.

The generator is coded in ES6 with Babel as polyfill. Thus, it avoids much of the overhead in creating the generator.

Features

• Angular 2.0 and Angular 1.x + Ionic in ES6 with ng-upgrade path
• Ionic 1.x + Angular 1.x template
• Cordova 5 + Setup (Asset production to come...)
• Uses ES6/ES7 with Babel as transpiler to write modern-day JavaScript without the use of typescript
• Use ES6 Modules via SystemJS
• Modular Grunt
• Sass for CSS preprocessing
• Bundling JavaScript via SystemJS (SFX)
• Uses BrowserSync to live code in the browser
• Also does image compression via imagemin
• It is delivered with Crosswalk as web view (Android only)
• Also adds many default plugins for Cordova

Only supported platforms are iOS and Android

Todo

• Smoke Testing & E2E (Karma & Nightwatch + Appium)
• Deployment to stores
• More tide integration
• ... many more things

Requirements

• Grunt
• Cordova
• GraphicsMagick
• ios-sim
• Karma
• PhantomJS

Usage

Many thins are still in the flow

Setup

GraphicsMagick can be installed via Homebrew:

brew install graphicsmagick

PhantomJS 2.x is needed to have the tests running; thus please install it separately as only PhantomJS 1.x is in the dependencies:

brew install phantomjs

Install yo, grunt-cli, cordova, jspm, karma and ios-sim in the global scope -g:

npm i -g yo grunt-cli cordova jspm karma ios-sim

Create a new folder for your project, and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-app && cd $_

Run yo i-want-nice-ng-cordova

yo i-want-nice-ng-cordova [appname]

Have fun with fun.

npm start

or

grunt fun

Debug & Release

As to to have a release build you have to provide a keystore and information in build.json.

As to to have a debug build just run debug:

grunt debug

As to to have a release build just run release or build:

grunt release

Testing

tba (unit testing, and uat... to come)