The Madek-Exporter

Building the App for Production

We do this via our CI system, see the file cider-ci.yml.

Development

See the files project.clj and .mux.yml.

First time preparation

node and npm must be installed and in the execution PATH. Run

npm install

Download Electron for your platform. One way to do it is via grunt

./node_modules/grunt/bin/grunt download-electron

Development targets

There are the following build targets:

1. JVM main, the code is located in jvm_main/.
2. Electron main, the code is located in electron_main/.
3. Electron front, also known as the "renderer", the code is located in electron_front/.
4. Stylesheets compiled from sass.

We build each one "continuously" in its own window when developing. A forth window holds the electron app.

JVM main

rm -rf target
lein repl
# it will open a repl in the main namespace, where we can start the server with
(-main)

Electron main

rm -rf app/dev/js/out_main app/dev/js/main.js
lein cljsbuild auto electron-main-dev

Electron front

rm -rf app/dev/js/front.js app/dev/js/out_front.js
lein descjop-figwheel

Stylesheets

The Electron front includes stylesheets which we are building continuously with

lein sass watch

The Electron app

Wait until all the three previous ones are ready. Then e.g. on MacOS:

./electron/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron app/dev

Running and Debugging the Production App

The electron parts can be build with

1. bin/build-electron-prod and the jvm with
2. lein uberjar.

The next steps depend on the OS. On MacOS: 3. bin/build-mac-os 4. ./madek-exporter-darwin-x64/madek-exporter.app/Contents/MacOS/madek-exporter

Copyright and license

Madek is (C) Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts).

Madek is Free Software under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3, see the included LICENSE file for license details.

Visit our main website at http://www.zhdk.ch and the IT center at http://itz.zhdk.ch