Tools

To build the project you need to have installed on your machine NodeJS, NPM, Bower, Grunt, Ruby and SASS.

Bower installation

npm install -g bower

Grunt installation

npm install -g grunt-cli

Build

Run commands from project root directory.

Download project dependencies

npm install
bower install

Building

Generates project artifacts.

grunt build

Package

Generates project deliverable artifact. builds the project (grunt build) and create dop.tar.gz file which contains the project artifacts.

grunt package

Front and Back end integration

To have and usable application is needed to connect to back end server. For that we use Apache2. All commands in this page are for Ubuntu 14.10

Installing Apache2

sudo apt-get install apache2

Installing proxy http module to redirect rest calls to back end servlet

sudo a2enmod proxy_http

Configuring Apache

Serving project files

To have the ability to develop Front End without copying files to Apache2 directory every time you change something, we have to configure DocumentRoot to point to project root directory.

Edit 000-default.conf

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Change DocumentRoot and make sure Apache has rights to read the target folder.

DocumentRoot /path/to/project

Also add those lines to the configuration just bellow DocumentRoot

<Directory />
    Require all granted
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Proxy configuration

Configure proxy to forward rest request to Back End servlet

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass /rest http://127.0.0.1:8080/rest
ProxyPassReverse /rest http://127.0.0.1:8080/rest

You should be able to run the whole application. Make sure to change Back End address to the one you are using, if not localhost.