There is a make watch
task available to build and watch for development
changes. View it on port 3000
- it uses Browsersync under the hood.
If you use m.thegulocal.com
it will try port 3000
and fall back to 9000
if unavailable.
make watch
You can run the Jasmine unit test suite with
make test
make fix
make validate
These will fix up the linting issues and check all the flow types to make sure you won't have any issue trying to push or with the simple parts of the build.
If you have already committed you can use make fix-commits
to verify & fix your commited code. It's
faster than make fix
but you will need to amend your previous commits to get a clean history.
If you are wondering what other options make has, you can simply type make
at the comment line.
It is often necessary to clean the root
project when 3rd-party libs have been updated for instance.
Developers can use the cleanAll
sbt task to clean all sbt projects, rather than only cleaning the current project.
You can debug your local Frontend application, by attaching a debugger.
- Start Simple Build Tool in debug mode by typing
./sbt --debug
. - Build and run your application. See "Running" for steps.
- Use a debugger to attach to the remote Java process, on localhost:1044.
Any IDE debugger should be compatible. In IntelliJ, add a new Debug Configuration, based on the Remote default. Ensure the Transport is Socket, the Debugger mode is Attach, and the port is set to 1044. Start a new Debug session, and your breakpoints should be active.
When running frontend locally, the AMP version of pages can be viewed by adding the ?amp
querystring to the end of the URL. For example:
http://localhost:9000/world/2015/oct/15/obama-delay-withdrawal-us-troops-afghanistan?amp