angular-cn/aio/tools
George Kalpakas 82a6fc5ef9 build(docs-infra): use local version of Zone.js when testing against local packages (#35858)
In some cases, we want to test the AIO app or docs examples against the
locally built Angular packages (for example to ensure that the changes
in a commit do not introduce a breaking change). In order to achieve
this, we have the `ng-packages-installer` script that handles updating
a project's `package.json` file to use the locally built Angular
packages (and appropriate versions for their (dev-/peer-)dependencies).

Previously, `ng-packages-installer` would only consider the locally
built Angular packages (from `dist/packages-dist/`). However, given that
Zone.js is now part of the `angular/angular` repo, it makes sense to
also use the locally built Zone.js package (from `dist/zone.js-dist/`).
Otherwise, the tests might fail for commits that update both the Angular
packages (and related docs examples) and the Zone.js package. An example
of such a simultaneous change (that would have broken tests) is #33838.

This commit updates the script to install the locally built Zone.js
package (in addition to the Angular ones). The commit ensures that the
Zone.js package will always be available alongside the Angular packages
(i.e. that the Zone.js package will be built by the same script that
builds the Angular packages and that the `dist/zone.js-dist/` directory
will be cached on CI).

Note: This problem was discovered while enabling docs examples unit
tests in #34374.

PR Close #35858
2020-03-06 17:30:20 -05:00
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cli-patches build(aio): update to @angular/cli@6.0.0-rc.2 + project layout update (#23234) 2018-04-17 14:09:02 -07:00
example-zipper build(docs-infra): use `puppeteer` to get a browser for docs examples tests (#35381) 2020-02-18 12:42:47 -08:00
examples build(docs-infra): use `puppeteer` to get a browser for docs examples tests (#35381) 2020-02-18 12:42:47 -08:00
firebase-test-utils build(docs-infra): enable more TypeScript strictness flags (#32980) 2019-10-10 13:56:14 -07:00
ng-packages-installer build(docs-infra): use local version of Zone.js when testing against local packages (#35858) 2020-03-06 17:30:20 -05:00
stackblitz-builder build(docs-infra): specify more relevant landing files for StackBlitz projects (#34553) 2020-01-22 13:45:23 -08:00
transforms build(docs-infra): ensure that CLI options are included in search (#35801) 2020-03-04 08:48:58 -08:00
README.md build: remove travisci leftovers (#27979) 2019-01-09 10:41:16 -08:00
RELEASE.md fix(aio): remove remaining `plnkr` references (#20165) 2018-01-23 21:30:27 -08:00
tslint.json refactor: remove tslint no-use-before-declare rule (#30288) 2019-05-07 10:25:36 -07:00

README.md

AIO project tooling

This document gives an overview of the tools that we use to generate the content for the angular.io website.

The application that actually renders this content can be found in the /aio/src folder. The handwritten content can be found in the /aio/content folder.

Each subfolder in this /aio/tools/ folder contains a self-contained tool and its configuration. There is a README.md file in each folder that describes the tool in more detail.

cli-patches

The AIO application is built using the Angular CLI tool. We are often trialling new features for the CLI, which we apply to the library after it is installed. This folder contains git patch files that contain these new features and a utility to apply those patches to the CLI library.

See the README.md for more details.

examples

Many of the documentation pages contain snippets of code examples. We extract these snippets from real working example applications, which are stored in subfolders of the /aio/content/examples folder. Each example can be built and run independently. Each example also provides e2e specs, which are run as part of our CI build tasks, to verify that the examples continue to work as expected, as changes are made to the core Angular libraries.

In order to build, run and test these examples independently we need to install dependencies into their sub-folder. Also there are a number of common boilerplate files that are needed to configure each example's project. We maintain these common boilerplate files centrally to reduce the amount of effort if one of them needs to change.

This examples tool folder contains two utilities:

  • example-boilerplate.js - install/remove the npm dependencies and boilerplate files into/from each of the examples' subfolders.
  • run-example-e2e.js - run the e2e tests for one or more examples

See the README.md for more details.

example-zipper

In the AIO application, we offer the reader the option to download each example as a full self-contained runnable project packaged as a zip file. These zip files are generated by the utility in this folder.

See the README.md for more details.

stackblitz-builder

In the AIO application, we can embed a running version of the example as a Stackblitz session. We can also provide a link to create a runnable version of the example in the Stackblitz editor.

See the README.md for more details.

transforms

All the content that is rendered by the AIO application, and some of its configuration files, are generated from source files by Dgeni. Dgeni is a general purpose documentation generation tool.

Markdown files in /aio/content, code comments in the core Angular source files and example files are processed and transformed into files that are consumed by the AIO application.

Dgeni is configured by "packages", which contain services and processors. Some of these packages are installed as node_modules from the dgeni-packages and some are specific to the AIO project.

The project specific packages are stored in the aio/tools/transforms folder. See the README.md for more details.