Demo - Building an Offline Salesforce.com app with Ionic and MobileCaddy

Overview

This is a demo app that can be used in association with the slides from the MobileCaddy talk on building an offline Salesforce app with the Ionic and MobileCaddy SDKs.

The are branches step-0 to step-5 that take you through building the app up, along wiith the slides. These branches can be checked out to see the code at that state.

Getting Started

• Get the code and the supporting node and packages. The following depencies are needed (For detailed instructions see the Getting Started Guide);

• npm

• grunt-cli

• ruby

• sass

• Install the MobileCaddy CLI

npm install -g mobilecaddy

What you get (prior to running any installs/grunt tasks)

├── apex-templates		## Templates for the platform's startpage and cache manifest
├── Gruntfile.js      ## Defines our task automation
├── mock              ## Platform mock responses can go in here
├── package.json      ## The node package file and core app configuration
├── README.md         ## This file
├── scss              ## Where you do your SCSS
├── tests             ## unit tests etc
└── www               ## Where you do your coding
    ├── css
    ├── img
    ├── index.html    ## This is used locally only
    ├── js
    ├── lib
    └── templates

• Install the required packages and dependencies (note: you might need sudo npm install below)

npm install
grunt devsetup

The app can be started using this command (that uses the Mobilecaddy CLI) and should be accessible on http://localhost:3030/www/, though a browser tab should be opened automagically for you.

mobilecaddy serve

The Codeflow control panel for your application should be availble on http://localhost:3030/codeflow/.

The Codeflow Control Panel

Task automation

The Grunt config (out of the box) offers the following commands

• grunt devsetup : This should be run once following npm install command. It will copy dependency files over into the correct place in your app
• grunt serve : This runs the connect and watch tasks below.
• grunt connect : This will start a server up so you can run your app in the browser
• grunt watch : This will watch your template files, JS and SCSS files for changes. And will run will depending on the type of file that changed, run JSHint, SASS compilation and will create a .zip file containing your app. You JS will be unminified in this archive to aid debugging. Any SCSS changes will prompt new CSS and cause live reload of these into your browser.
• grunt unit-test : run the karma unit tests
• grunt dev : This runs JSHint, SASS compilation and will create a .zip file containing your app. You JS will be unminified in this archive to aid debugging.
• grunt prod : This will do the same as grunt dev but your JS will be minified in the output archive.

end2end Testing

e2e tests can be run with protractor. This may need to be installed if you haven't got it already;

npm install -g protractor

You may also need to install/update the webdriver

webdriver-manager update --standaloneUpdating selenium standalone

To run the tests;

webdriver-manager start

... and in another prompt

protractor tests/protractor.config.js