@ephox/alloy

Description

alloy is a UI library that specialises in creating reusable behaviours and components that are not opinionated about DOM structure and styling. It is a very low-level library.

Installation

Prerequisites

A webserver to run demos, npm, webpack is required to run and develop alloy

alloy is available as an npm package. You can install it via the npm package @ephox/alloy

npm install install the dependencies webpack compile the src code

Usage

Running Tests

alloy uses bolt and bedrock to run its tests. If you are running the browser tests, you may need to ensure that you have valid webdrivers on your path. You can install many of the webdrivers through npm.

There are four kinds of tests that alloy runs:

• atomic tests
• phantomjs tests
• browser tests
• webdriver tests

Running PhantomJS Tests

$ npm run test

Note, will run phantomjs tests.

Running Browser Tests

The browser tests are in the src/test/js/browser directory. They do not require a webdriver and can be run using the bedrock mode (rather than bedrock-auto).

$ bedrock --testdir src/test/js/browser

In this mode, bedrock will not open the browser, nor will it close it. This mode is used for development and debugging.

Running Webdriver Tests

Some tests in alloy need to access raw WebDriver APIs like sendKeys. This allows tests to use selenium to provide actual real key events, rather than simulated JavaScript events. However, to run these tests, you need to use bedrock-auto. The tests are stored in the src/test/js/webdriver directory.

For example, to run the tests on Chrome:

$ bedrock-auto -b chrome --testdir src/test/js/webdriver

Note, webdriver tests are still rather fragile.

Alloy APIs

We are currently working on documenting the alloy APIs. For now, there are many demos available in src/demo/html that demonstrate how to use alloy. Be aware that the library is still in a state of constant adjustment.