Agile JavaScript a codecentric AG workshop

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Quickstart

You have downloaded the necessary software and cloned the movie-database repository. So now you are ready to start hacking.

1. Make sure your neo4j-database is running: Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:7474. If you see the neo4j webadmin interface, everything is fine. If the neo4j webadmin interface doesn't show up, you have to start neo4j manually:

   cd <neo4j-installation-directory>
   bin/neo4j start

2. Change to your movie-database directory:

   cd <movie-database-directory>

3. Let npm download the required dependencies:

   npm install

4. Make sure you have the grunt command line interface installed:

   npm install -g grunt-cli

5. Test your movie-database application using the travis task. This is exactly what happens during a build on Travis-CI. Be sure, that this step succeeds, before moving on!. If the build fails, re-check your setup (neo4j running? phantomjs installed? nodejs-version up-to-date?).

   grunt test

6. Finally, you can start developing. The most useful grunt-task during development is dev. This task start a web-server in the background (on port 3000). The webserver is restarted automatically, whenever a file changes. Moreover, on each file-change, the jshint and unit-test tasks are executed. If you keep an eye on the console output, you will always know, when your code changes break existing tests.

   grunt dev

7. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000/.
8. Change some code, watch for the automatically triggered test-run and see the result instantly in your web-browser.