unpoly

Progressive enhancement for HTML

Unpoly enhances your HTML with attributes to build dynamic UI on the server.

Unpoly works with any language or framework. It plays nice with existing code, and gracefully degrades without JavaScript.

This branch tracks the current major version, Unpoly 3.x.
If you're using Unpoly 2.x, use the 2.x-stable branch.
If you're using Unpoly 1.x or 0.x, use the 1.x-stable branch.

Getting started

• See unpoly.com for guides and documentation.
• See installation instructions for many different package managers and languages.
• See discussions for our community forum.
• See notable changes.

Development

Installing development dependencies

To build Unpoly you require Node.js, Webpack and other npm packages.

Install the Node version from .nvmrc.

To install Webpack and other required npm packages, run:

npm install

Quick start

The following will build the library and open a web browser with the test suite:

npm run dev

To run individual tasks instead, see below.

Building the library

Tests don't consume the sources directly, but from a transpiled build in dist/.

To make fresh build, run:

npm run build-dev

This will build transpiled files such as:

dist/unpoly.js
dist/unpoly.css
dist/unpoly-migrate.js
dist/jasmine.js
dist/specs.js

There is also a task npm run build for a production build. This does not build files for testing, but also outputs minified versions.

Watching files for changes

During development it is impractical to make a full build after every change. Instead it is recommend to watch the project:

npm run watch-dev

This will make a fresh build and then watch the project for changes to the source files. When a source changes, affected build files are automatically recompiled. The incremental recompilation is much faster than a full build.

Running tests

Tests run using a browser-based Jasmine runner.

To start a web server serving the Jasmine runner:

npm run test

This will open a server on http://localhost:4000 and opens that URL with your default browser.

In addition to the unit tests, there is an optional support repo unpoly-manual-tests. It contains a Rails app to play with Unpoly features that are hard to test well with a unit test. E.g. the visual look of overlays, or edge cases when booting Unpoly.

Making a new release

There is a guided CLI interface to lead you through the release process. To start the process run:

npm run release

Credits

• Henning Koch from makandra (@triskweline on Twitter)
• Contributors