slush-marklogic-node

Generator of Node.js Application Backed by MarkLogic

This is a Slush generator that produces a skeleton MarkLogic application with the following components:

• AngularJS
• Gulp
• node.js: very thin layer, hosting the Angular code and proxying MarkLogic REST API requests
• Roxy Deployer: bootstrap MarkLogic databases, application servers, etc; scaffolding for MarkLogic REST API service extensions

Getting Started

Microsoft Windows users should read the additional requirements documentation

Install Required Dependencies

• node.js
• npm: Built-in package manager for node (comes with node, but check to be sure you have latest version: npm install -g npm)
• gulp: Javascript task automation (npm install -g gulp)
• Slush: Application generation tool (npm install -g slush) - only needed if you are generating the initial code
• Bower: A package manager for front-end libraries (npm install -g bower)
• Git - Roxy depends on this version control system
• Ruby - Roxy depends on Ruby in order to run server configuration scripts

Install the generator

npm install -g slush-marklogic-node

If you prefer to use the latest code under development:

npm install -g git://github.com/marklogic/slush-marklogic-node.git

Run the generator

Go to the directory where your new project will be created (the parent). Then:

slush marklogic-node <app-name>

This will ask you several questions, with some intelligent defaults.

Configure your application

Go to the generated application directory:

cd {app-name}

Edit deploy/build.properties to set the -port properties to available ports (defaults: 8040, 8041) and change other properties. The file itself documents many of those properties. Others are described in the documentation for the Roxy deployer. Then run the following Roxy commands to configure your local MarkLogic database (typically, depending on your configuration, it will create a database, associated forest(s), a REST server, an app-user, and a role for that user).

./ml local bootstrap
./ml local deploy modules

On Windows, that would be:

ml.bat local bootstrap
ml.bat local deploy modules

Install additional dependencies using the bower package manager:

bower install

Edit the _loginMode variable in ui/app/login/login.service.js to change the login mode of the application. The default is set to full. The other options are top-right or modal.

Run your application

gulp serve-local # this will watch the .less file for changes, compile them to .css, and run the node server

You can set some settings to match your setup in the Roxy properties files. For example:

gulp serve-local --ml-host=<your-host> --ml-http-port=8234 --app-port=9234 --nosync

Next Steps

Load some sample data, as described in the next section of this README.

The slush generation creates an entire project directory, described in Project folder structure.

Explaining the stack gives a more complete description of the overall architecture.

Learn more about specific components of the generated application on the Components page.

Learn about specific ways of customizing your app on the Customization Recipes page.

Data

Sample Data

The application comes with 3000 JSON documents generated by json-generator.com. You can load them with (MLCP)[https://docs.marklogic.com/guide/ingestion/content-pump] like this:

NOTE: @sample-app-role in import-sample-data.options will change to your app's role (Alternatively, you can discover that with ./ml local info)

./ml local mlcp -options_file import-sample-data.options

Or on Windows:

ml.bat local mlcp -options_file import-sample-data.options

General Data Information

The application assumes that you're storing JSON data. This shows up in the default format request for the MLRest service's searchContext, the detailController's (detail-ctrl.js) request to get a document, and in the out-of-the-box detail view.

Options

Roxy

The generator defaults to using a 'rest'-type Roxy app and the 'master' branch of Roxy. If you know what you're doing, and you want to do something different, you can specify those options with this syntax:

slush marklogic-node <appName> appType=mvc branch=dev