mvvm UNDER Development

##HackReactor Students Checkout the mvvm new command

The documentation was thrown together with little time. I will be updating, and fixing spelling errors soon.

Model View ViewModel Scaffolding tool # in development

Includes

A bunch of predefined boilerplates for AngularJS Fullstack Applications.

There a several from John Papa's ng-demos

John Papa has been the biggest help with the teams I have been working with at HackReactor. Thanks.

What is mvvm?

mvvm is an all purpose command line tool that does several things. It is primarily build for Angular applications. However, it can be used with anything.

Initially I had build an angular fullstack generator called slush-y

mvvm now does everything and more that slush-y.

##What does mvvm do?

mvvm contains a local store, which allows you to save you current working directory. This of course allows you to re install it somewhere else.

Why not use git? Well git is great... but I need something to generate template code quick, and creating a new repo, or pulling peices from a repo was too tediouse.

mvvm is also a command line generator. It uses Gulp, just like slush does, however, you get to create and save the templates.

There is currently not a great deal of flexibility when saving templates. I will be providing updates soon.

Here are some of the featured within mvvm

##Features

- AngularJS Component Generator
- Demo AngularJS Application Generator
- Local Package Storage

Lets get started, and I'll go a little more in depth on these feature below.

Getting Started

Install the module with:

$ npm install -g mvvm

Documentation

###Generator

mvvm new

Run the following command to get started with a fresh simple application template.

HACK REACTOR This is the quick fullstack example we went over in my long three hour talk.

$ mvvm new

mvvm will build a sample module ready application in your current working directory.

Make sure you run npm install && bower install

After npm and bower install, You can run the application by simply running the following command.

$ gulp

gulp has a few tasks.

• styles
• bower
• inject
• server
• watch

gulp will simply compile your styles, Then it will find and inject all bower_components into your index.html Then it will find and inject all css, and js into your index.html Then it will simply require the ./server, to run the express server. Finally it will watch you css & js for changes, and livereload.

NOW TIME TO BUILD

Usually you would run the following command

$ mvvm init

mvvm init will ask you a few questions about your file structure. However, if you open the mvvm.json file in your root directory, you will see that these paths are already set for you.

I Do not reccomend changing them. These paths are optimized for consistent Architectural patterns.

Since we dont have to run mvvm init, lets try the following command

$ mvvm --help

You will see a large coloreful list of commands with options.

Lets take a look at mvvm make

###mvvm make [compnent] [name]

mvvm make is a series of generators that will generate template code for you.

Each of these commands will install code into either your ./client/app/core directory or ./client/app/modules/** directory

mvvm will read the modulesDir set in you ./mvvm.json and display each module as an option.

Once an option is chosen, it will then generate the code within that module.

To create a new blank module, you can run the following command.

$ mvvm make module [name]

You can specify a name... or else it will prompt you for the name!

Once you have a new module, You are ready to start generating components within this module.

Check out the --help for available generators.

mvvm demo

Provides a list of demo applications. Several of which come from John Papa's ng-demos.

Here is a list of the current demos

• modular
• quickstart
• playground-ng-1.3
• cc-bmean

mvvm init

This initializes your CWD (Current working directory with a mvvm.json file)

mvvm.json is an important file, and must be in your directory to run most of the commands.

The init command will prompt you for several directory paths.

-clientDir : your client side directory
-serverDir : your server side directory
-appDir    : The application directory within your client
-modulesDir: The directory where you store your separate  AngularJS Modules
-coreDir   : The directory where you store you core AngularJS Module

mvvm init

Now that we have initialize our directory. you can run the mvvm demo command.

##DEMOS

####BASE

Provides you with a completely empty apllication folder structure. However, There NodeJS server is filled out with something quite interesting.

I have found that it is difficult for new developers to understand how everything in NodeJS is connected. So the server is simply an object called app that is past around to the furthest depths of the server. Each file adds itself, and it's sibling files to this object. By the time the computer reads the server/index.js the entire node application has added some information to the app object.

The app object is finally console.logged at the end of the file. Now you can simply preview what all has been added to the object.

The client side is only a bunch of empty, well architected folders.

Provides a simple example of using each components in angular. See READEME.md for more info.

You can find the docs on the other demos in their README's.

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING Guidelines

Support

If you have any problem or suggestion please open an issue here.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014, JoelCox

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