FTV - NodeJS AngularJS Pregen

This project is part of francetv zoom open source projects (iOS, Android and Angular).

NodeJS server used to generate AngularJS page.

Get sources

git clone [email protected]:francetv/ftv-node-angular-pregen.git

Required dependencies

• npm

Installation

npm install ftv-node-angular-pregen

Dev requirement

npm install -g gulp
npm install

JS Linter

gulp js-lint

Demo

Installation

gulp demo

then requiring nodemon or pm2

npm install -g nodemon
nodemon demo/server.js --expose-gc

npm install -g pm2
pm2 start demo/server.js --node-args='--expose-gc' --watch

In the demo we require using garbage collector because current jsdom version still has memory leak

Explanation

• Server
  • Api Service - Retrieving "view data" according the url
  • Pregen page with the "view data" and on the required librairies
  • Inserting in the snapshot the "view data" in a angular module
  • Sending snapshot to the client
• Client
  • Initializing the angular app
  • Building the page with the "view data" retrieved from the inserted angular modules (prevent to call again the api - server side only)