Apple TV TVML Sample App

This repo is a Work In Progress of, in my mind, a pretty sweet Apple TV TVOS/TVML/TVJS app setup. It features:

• ES6 with Babel
• Bundled Javascript with Webpack
• Webpack is also managing:
  • Stylus for CSS
  • Jade for templates, compiling to a DOM object
  • Using require() to load up images
• URL-based routing for easy navigation and view handling using page.js
• Live reload

The structure of the application is very similar to an Express app, complete with routes and views. This is a work in progress. I aim to flesh the project out to be more of a complete app, with plenty of documentation and comments explaining how things work.

Getting started

A TVML app for Apple TV consists of two parts:

• The native Swift host app. This does very little - it just loads the javascript bundle.
• The Javascript app. In production you would upload this to S3 or some sort of server. This is the bulk of the application.

Run the dev server with:

npm install
npm start

And build the native Swift host app into the simulator and it should all work.

Note: This project uses API's from an Australia catchup TV video-on-demand service, which may or may not be geoblocked.