eXist-db Packagemanager

This application allows to browse local and remote packages, install, upload or remove packages.

Requirements

What will be needed up-front:

1. an installation of eXist-db (3.0 or above recommended)
2. a nodejs installation (see below for instructions)
3. an installation of the Polymer CLI for optimized builds
4. Apache Ant configured

IMPORTANT NOTE: JavaScript dependencies are managed by bower which dynamically loads those into a 'bower_components' folder. However to ease the building process, the bower components have been added to the repo. This way it is not necessary to have a NodeJS installation to build PackageManager. If you want to just want to build an un-optimized version you can skip the steps under 'Preparation' and just all 'ant dev-xar'.

Preparation

• execute npm install in the root directory to install bower and other tools used for building and development
• execute bower install the the root directory
• make sure you have the Polymer CLI installed if you intend to build a compressed production version

Building eXist-db app

for production

ant

creates build/packagemanager-x.x.x.xar

Please note that this task might take a moment as the whole dependency tree is analysed and the compressed version is stored into a single file.

for development

ant dev-xar

creates build/packagemanager-dev-x.x.x.xar

Using gulp assistance

There's additional development support through gulp. Most prominently with

gulp deploy

pushes the local workspace into the app collection in eXist-db on localhost.

gulp watch

synchronizes the local workspace with the app deployed in eXist-db. Changed files will be automatically deployed when stored.

Please note that the app must be installed in eXist-db first before these task work.

More information

Please refer to the tools document for more information on effective use of the bundled tools.