edx-ui-toolkit

edX UI Toolkit

A JavaScript toolkit for building edX user interfaces.

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Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. License
3. Contributions
4. Getting Started
5. Linting
6. Tests
7. Documentation

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Overview

This library contains the following:

• Backbone views to implement patterns as defined by the edX Pattern Library: http://ux.edx.org/
• Utility methods to simplify the creation and testing of user interfaces

License

The code in this repository uses the Apache 2.0 license unless otherwise noted. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributions

Contributions are very welcome. The easiest way is to fork this repo, and then make a pull request from your fork. The first time you make a pull request, you may be asked to sign a Contributor Agreement.

Please refer to our contributor guidelines for important additional information.

Getting Started

The UI Toolkit uses yarn to manage its dependencies. To work with the repo locally, you will need to have yarn installed. Check the official documentation for instructions on installing on your system.

1. Get the code (e.g. clone the repository).

2. Install the Node requirements:

    $ yarn
   

Linting

    $ gulp lint

Tests

To run tests in headless mode:

    $ gulp test

To run tests in debug mode:

    $ gulp test-debug

Once tests are running in debug mode, open this URL:

    http://localhost:9009/debug.html

Documentation

The UI Toolkit has auto-generated documentation available here: http://ui-toolkit.edx.org/.

To generate this documentation, run the following command:

    $ gulp doc
    

To upload a preview of the documentation to S3:

    $ gulp preview

To update the hosted documentation:

    $ gulp doc-publish

Changelog

1.5.2 (2017-04-10)

• Update and pin dependencies
• Introduce yarn for dependency management
• Add alternative to deprecated keyCodes

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