Demo

Introduction

A movie search app using angular2 seed template. I used this template to showcase best practices.

Omdbapi allows to search by title and year. I have implemented only one text box for all search types

• You can search for "titanic" by entering the string "titanic".
• Search for titanic and year 1997 is as easy as typing "titanic 1997". ( not covered by unit tests yet)

Also Pipes and Directive and shared components are created whereever it made sense.

Sorting on search results hasn't been implemented as it did not make sense here. If required it can be implemented by creating a service for sorting ( AngularJS2 doens't provide inbuilt functionality). All the pipes and directives are not fully covered with unit tests. Travis CI is the go to tool for me for continous integration and heroku for deployment.

Future Improvements:

• scss use
• unit test all units ( more scenarios).
• deployment to heroku.

angular2-seed provides the following features:

• Allows you to painlessly update the seed tasks of your already existing project.
• Out of the box ServiceWorkers and AppCache support thanks to the integration with angular/mobile-toolkit.
• Ready to go, statically typed build system using gulp for working with TypeScript.
• Production and development builds.
• Sample unit tests with Jasmine and Karma including code coverage via istanbul.
• End-to-end tests with Protractor.
• Development server with Livereload.
• Following the best practices.
• Manager of your type definitions using typings.
• Has autoprefixer and css-lint support.

How to start

Note that this seed project requires node v4.x.x or higher and npm 2.14.7.

Here is how to speed-up the build on Windows.

In order to start the seed use:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed.git
cd angular2-seed
# install the project's dependencies
npm install
# watches your files and uses livereload by default
npm start
# api document for the app
# npm run build.docs

# dev build
npm run build.dev
# prod build
npm run build.prod

Does not rely on any global dependencies. (except Java)

Configuration

Default application server configuration

var PORT             = 5555;
var LIVE_RELOAD_PORT = 4002;
var DOCS_PORT        = 4003;
var APP_BASE         = '/';

Configure at runtime

npm start -- --port 8080 --reload-port 4000 --base /my-app/

Tools documentation

A documentation of the provided tools can be found in tools/README.md.

Running tests

npm test

# Debug - In two different shell windows
npm run build.test.watch      # 1st window
npm run karma.start           # 2nd window

# code coverage (istanbul)
# auto-generated at the end of `npm test`
# view coverage report:
npm run serve.coverage

# e2e (aka. end-to-end, integration) - In three different shell windows
# Make sure you don't have a global instance of Protractor

# npm run webdriver-update <- You will need to run this the first time
npm run webdriver-start
npm run serve.e2e
npm run e2e

# e2e live mode - Protractor interactive mode
# Instead of last command above, you can use:
npm run e2e.live

You can learn more about Protractor Interactive Mode here

Advanced Seed Option

An advanced option to this seed exists here which mirrors the latest changes here but adds core support for:

• ngrx/store RxJS powered state management, inspired by Redux
• ngrx-store-router middleware for syncing state with Angular 2 Router.
• ng2-translate for i18n
• lodash Helps reduce blocks of code down to single lines and enhances readability
• NativeScript cross platform mobile (w/ native UI) apps.
• More coming in the future...

You may use it to learn how to extend this seed for your own use cases or use the advanced seed if your project needs those features.

Directory Structure

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├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── gulpfile.ts                <- configuration of the gulp tasks
├── karma.conf.js              <- configuration of the test runner
├── package.json               <- dependencies of the project
├── protractor.conf.js         <- e2e tests configuration
├── src                        <- source code of the application
│   └── client
│       ├── todo
│       ├── assets
│       │   └── svg
│       │       └── more.svg
│       ├── css
│       │   └── main.css
│       ├── index.html
│       ├── tsconfig.json
│       └── typings.d.ts
├── test-main.js               <- testing configuration
├── tools
│   ├── README.md              <- build documentation
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── project.config.ts  <- configuration of the specific project
│   │   ├── seed.config.interfaces.ts
│   │   └── seed.config.ts     <- generic configuration of the seed project
│   ├── config.ts              <- exported configuration (merge both seed.config and project.config, project.config overrides seed.config)
│   ├── debug.ts
│   ├── manual_typings
│   │   ├── project            <- manual ambient typings for the project
│   │   │   └── sample.package.d.ts
│   │   └── seed               <- seed manual ambient typings
│   │       ├── angular2-hot-loader.d.ts
│   │       ├── autoprefixer.d.ts
│   │       ├── colorguard.d.ts
│   │       ├── connect-livereload.d.ts
│   │       ├── cssnano.d.ts
│   │       ├── doiuse.d.ts
│   │       ├── express-history-api-fallback.d.ts
│   │       ├── istream.d.ts
│   │       ├── karma.d.ts
│   │       ├── merge-stream.d.ts
│   │       ├── open.d.ts
│   │       ├── postcss-reporter.d.ts
│   │       ├── slash.d.ts
│   │       ├── stylelint.d.ts
│   │       ├── systemjs-builder.d.ts
│   │       ├── tildify.d.ts
│   │       ├── tiny-lr.d.ts
│   │       └── walk.d.ts
│   ├── tasks                  <- gulp tasks
│   │   ├── project            <- project specific gulp tasks
│   │   │   └── sample.task.ts
│   │   └── seed               <- seed generic gulp tasks. They can be overriden by the project specific gulp tasks
│   │       ├── build.assets.dev.ts
│   │       ├── build.assets.prod.ts
│   │       ├── build.bundles.app.ts
│   │       ├── build.bundles.ts
│   │       ├── build.docs.ts
│   │       ├── build.html_css.ts
│   │       ├── build.index.dev.ts
│   │       ├── build.index.prod.ts
│   │       ├── build.js.dev.ts
│   │       ├── build.js.e2e.ts
│   │       ├── build.js.prod.ts
│   │       ├── build.js.test.ts
│   │       ├── build.js.tools.ts
│   │       ├── check.versions.ts
│   │       ├── clean.all.ts
│   │       ├── clean.dev.ts
│   │       ├── clean.prod.ts
│   │       ├── clean.tools.ts
│   │       ├── copy.js.prod.ts
│   │       ├── css-lint.ts
│   │       ├── e2e.ts
│   │       ├── generate.manifest.ts
│   │       ├── karma.start.ts
│   │       ├── serve.coverage.ts
│   │       ├── serve.docs.ts
│   │       ├── server.prod.ts
│   │       ├── server.start.ts
│   │       ├── tslint.ts
│   │       ├── watch.dev.ts
│   │       ├── watch.e2e.ts
│   │       ├── watch.test.ts
│   │       └── webdriver.ts
│   ├── utils                  <- build utils
│   │   ├── project            <- project specific gulp utils
│   │   │   └── sample_util.ts
│   │   ├── project.utils.ts
│   │   ├── seed               <- seed specific gulp utils
│   │   │   ├── clean.ts
│   │   │   ├── code_change_tools.ts
│   │   │   ├── server.ts
│   │   │   ├── tasks_tools.ts
│   │   │   ├── template_locals.ts
│   │   │   ├── tsproject.ts
│   │   │   └── watch.ts
│   │   └── seed.utils.ts
│   └── utils.ts
├── tsconfig.json              <- configuration of the typescript project (ts-node, which runs the tasks defined in gulpfile.ts)
├── tslint.json                <- tslint configuration
├── typings                    <- typings directory. Contains all the external typing definitions defined with typings
├── typings.json
└── appveyor.yml

Change Log

You can follow the Angular 2 change log here.

License

MIT