generator-realtime

Yeoman generator for AngularJS + Firebase, with a couple of extras.

What's in the box?

angular-fire

angular-fire is included by default. A main firebase URL is set on $rootScope, and the $firebase service is injected into controllers.

firesolver

A service called firesolver is included, which is a route resolver that plays nicely with $firebase and $firebaseSimpleAuth.

TODO - document this!

Classy controllers

Classy is used for controllers, which look like this in generator-realtime:

'use strict'
 
angular.module('gentestApp').classy
.controller 
  
  name: 'MainCtrl'
 
  inject: ['$scope', '$rootScope', '$firebase']
 
  init: ->
 
    # Bitcoin price "last" reference is on the $rootScope 
    bitcoinRef = new Firebase @$rootScope.firebaseURL
 
    # Shorthand for @$scope.bitcoin is @$.bitcoin 
    @$.bitcoin = @$firebase bitcoinRef

Better default colors

Colors.css contains some nice-looking versions of default web colors. Just use color: $red instead of color: red

Easy-mode animations

Animate.sass is the sass version of the popular Animate.css, and adds the ability to only import certain animations to cut down on size a bit. If you want to use an animation, make sure to turn it on first, like so:

$use-fadeInUp: true;
 
// bower:scss 
// ... some bower stuff 
// endbower 

Make sure to do this before the bower:scss section

See the animate-sass settings file for a list of variable names.

Danger! Danger! High voltage!

Currently, this only supports coffeescript. Once the dust settles a little bit, I'll build out the javascript templates as well. Also, animate-sass and colors.scss are only really applicable if you're using sass.

And of course, feel free to send a pull request :)

TODO

• Add firebaseResolver
• Add HTML5 mode by default
• Add .nginx file and symlink www -> dist/ for dokku deployment

Generator readme:

Usage

Install generator-realtime:

npm install -g generator-realtime

Make a new directory, and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-project && cd $_

Run yo realtime, optionally passing an app name:

yo realtime [app-name]

Run grunt for building and grunt serve for preview

Generators

Available generators:

• realtime (aka realtime:app)
• realtime:controller
• realtime:directive
• realtime:filter
• realtime:route
• realtime:service
• realtime:provider
• realtime:factory
• realtime:value
• realtime:constant
• realtime:decorator
• realtime:view

Note: Generators are to be run from the root directory of your app.

App

Sets up a new AngularJS app, generating all the boilerplate you need to get started. The app generator also optionally installs Bootstrap and additional AngularJS modules, such as angular-resource (installed by default).

Example:

yo realtime

Route

Generates a controller and view, and configures a route in app/scripts/app.js connecting them.

Example:

yo realtime:route myroute

Produces app/scripts/controllers/myroute.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('MyrouteCtrl', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Produces app/views/myroute.html:

<p>This is the myroute view</p>

Explicitly provide route URI

Example:

yo realtime:route myRoute --uri=my/route

Produces controller and view as above and adds a route to app/scripts/app.js with URI my/route

Resolve route with data from firebase and inject into controller

(not currently available for javascript)

Example:

yo realtime:route myRoute --resolve

Produces controller, view, and route as above, and adds a resolve function that attempts to fetch data from firebase. If that data is found, it is injected into the generated controller. If not, the route change fails and an error will be thrown on $rootScope called routeChangeError

Only allow authenticated users to access route

Example:

yo realtime:route myRoute --authenticated

Produces controller, view, and route as above, and adds a resolve function that ensures that the current user is authenticated. If the user is not logged in, the route change fails and an error will be thrown on $rootScope called routeChangeError

All of the things

Example:

yo realtime:route myRoute --resolve --authenticated

Controller

Generates a controller in app/scripts/controllers.

Remembers if you asked to use Classy when scaffolding the app.

Example:

yo realtime:controller user

Produces app/scripts/controllers/user.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('UserCtrl', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Directive

Generates a directive in app/scripts/directives.

Example:

yo realtime:directive myDirective

Produces app/scripts/directives/myDirective.js:

angular.module('myMod').directive('myDirective', function () {
  return {
    template: '<div></div>',
    restrict: 'E',
    link: function postLink(scope, element, attrs) {
      element.text('this is the myDirective directive');
    }
  };
});

Filter

Generates a filter in app/scripts/filters.

Example:

yo realtime:filter myFilter

Produces app/scripts/filters/myFilter.js:

angular.module('myMod').filter('myFilter', function () {
  return function (input) {
    return 'myFilter filter:' + input;
  };
});

View

Generates an HTML view file in app/views.

Example:

yo realtime:view user

Produces app/views/user.html:

<p>This is the user view</p>

Service

Generates an AngularJS service.

Example:

yo realtime:service myService

Produces app/scripts/services/myService.js:

angular.module('myMod').service('myService', function () {
  // ...
});

You can also do yo realtime:factory, yo realtime:provider, yo realtime:value, and yo realtime:constant for other types of services.

Decorator

Generates an AngularJS service decorator.

Example:

yo realtime:decorator serviceName

Produces app/scripts/decorators/serviceNameDecorator.js:

angular.module('myMod').config(function ($provide) {
    $provide.decorator('serviceName', function ($delegate) {
      // ...
      return $delegate;
    });
  });

Options

In general, these options can be applied to any generator, though they only affect generators that produce scripts.

CoffeeScript

For generators that output scripts, the --coffee option will output CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript.

For example:

yo realtime:controller user --coffee

Produces app/scripts/controller/user.coffee:

angular.module('myMod')
  .controller 'UserCtrl', ($scope) ->

A project can mix CoffeScript and JavaScript files.

To output JavaScript files, even if CoffeeScript files exist (the default is to output CoffeeScript files if the generator finds any in the project), use --coffee=false.

Minification Safe

Removed

Related Issue #452: This option has been removed from the generator. Initially it was needed as ngMin was not entirely stable. As it has matured, the need to keep separate versions of the script templates has led to extra complexity and maintenance of the generator. By removing these extra burdens, new features and bug fixes should be easier to implement. If you are dependent on this option, please take a look at ngMin and seriously consider implementing it in your own code. It will help reduce the amount of typing you have to do (and look through) as well as make your code cleaner to look at.

By default, generators produce unannotated code. Without annotations, AngularJS's DI system will break when minified. Typically, these annotations that make minification safe are added automatically at build-time, after application files are concatenated, but before they are minified. The annotations are important because minified code will rename variables, making it impossible for AngularJS to infer module names based solely on function parameters.

The recommended build process uses ngmin, a tool that automatically adds these annotations. However, if you'd rather not use ngmin, you have to add these annotations manually yourself. **One thing to note is that ngmin does not produce minsafe code for things that are not main level elements like controller, services, providers, etc.:

resolve: {
  User: function(myService) {
    return MyService();
  }
}

will need to be manually done like so:

resolve: {
  User: ['myService', function(myService) {
    return MyService();
  }]
}

Add to Index

By default, new scripts are added to the index.html file. However, this may not always be suitable. Some use cases:

• Manually added to the file
• Auto-added by a 3rd party plugin
• Using this generator as a subgenerator

To skip adding them to the index, pass in the skip-add argument:

yo realtime:service serviceName --skip-add

Bower Components

The following packages are always installed by the app generator:

• angular
• angular-mocks
• angular-scenario

The following additional modules are available as components on bower, and installable via bower install:

• angular-cookies
• angular-loader
• angular-resource
• angular-sanitize

All of these can be updated with bower update as new versions of AngularJS are released.

Configuration

Yeoman generated projects can be further tweaked according to your needs by modifying project files appropriately.

Output

You can change the app directory by adding a appPath property to bower.json. For instance, if you wanted to easily integrate with Express.js, you could add the following:

{
  "name": "yo-test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  ...
  "appPath": "public"
}
 

This will cause Yeoman-generated client-side files to be placed in public.

Testing

Running grunt test will run the unit tests with karma.

Contribute

See the contributing docs

When submitting an issue, please follow the guidelines. Especially important is to make sure Yeoman is up-to-date, and providing the command or commands that cause the issue.

When submitting a PR, make sure that the commit messages match the AngularJS conventions.

When submitting a bugfix, write a test that exposes the bug and fails before applying your fix. Submit the test alongside the fix.

When submitting a new feature, add tests that cover the feature.

License

BSD license