woudc-ui

Next version of WOUDC UI using Nuxt and VueJS.

Build Setup

• Install NodeJS
• Create a copy of the .env.sample file and rename to .env
  • WOUDC_UI_BASE_URL should be the domain name of your app
  • WOUDC_UI_ROUTER_BASE The base URL of the app. For example, if the entire single page application is served under /app/, then base should use the value '/app/'

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000, dotenv reference to .env file
$ npm run dev

# OR serve with hot reload at localhost:3000, dotenv reference to .env.sample file
$ npx nuxt dev --dotenv .env.sample

# build for production, optional reference to --dotenv to .env.ops file
$ npx nuxt build --dotenv .env.ops

# build for production and launch server for SSR (requires NodeJS server)
$ npm run build
$ npm run start

# generate static deployment: https://nuxtjs.org/guide#static-generated-pre-rendering-
$ npm run generate
# Optional: preview deployment in localhost from /dist
$ npm run start

# OR generate static deployment with optional reference to --dotenv file
$ npx nuxt generate --dotenv .env.ops

For detailed explanation on how things work, check out Nuxt.js docs.

SPA fallback in deployment

Since not all pages in WOUDC will be pre-generated, a fallback is required to redirect to 200.html to handle pages with dynamic data.

Apache server mod-rewrite example (deployed to subfolder /subfolder-name as the base route):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /subfolder-name/
RewriteRule ^subfolder-name/200\.html$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /subfolder-name/200.html [L]
</IfModule>

After building your files (npm run build), you can copy the .htaccess sample to your /dist for convenience and modify it to according to your server settings.

# modify to your web server specs
vi .htaccess

# build
npm run build

# copy to /dist
cp .htaccess ./dist

Or modify your apache .conf setting for your application in similar fashion if you're not using .htaccess files. Example with application deployed on root domain:

<Location />
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteRule ^200\.html$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule . /200.html [L]
</Location>

## Environment variables (.env)

This project includes a `.env.sample` file. **You must copy the file and rename as `.env` and edit with your environment variables so that Nuxt will load it in by default.** You can have multiple `.env` files and reference it directly on build or dev.

```bash
# Development
$ npx nuxt dev --dotenv .env.sample

# Build
$ npx nuxt generate --dotenv .env.ops

Debian packaging and general release tagging for OPS

• Update version in package.json
• Ensure .env and woudc-ui.conf in /deploy/default are set correctly
• Update /debian/changelog with dch command:
  • dch -v x.y.z -u medium -D bionic -M where x.y.z is the version (ie. 2.0.0-beta1)
• Commit the changelog into repo:
  • git commit -m 'update release version' debian/changelog
  • git push upstream master
• Create git tag in one of two ways:
  • https://github.com/woudc/woudc-ui/releases and click on Draft a new release button
  • git command line:
    • git tag -a x.y.z -m 'tagging x.y.z'
    • git push --tags
• Inform OPS team of URL of .zip or tar.gz file for install to server
  • example URL: https://github.com/woudc/woudc-ui/releases/tag/2.0.0-beta4

Linting and Prettier

Recomendation: If using VS Code, install the extention, ESLint. Then add the following settings to your settings.json for ESLint:

    "eslint.options": {
        "extensions": [".html", ".js", ".vue"]
    },
    "eslint.validate": [
        "vue",
        "html",
        "javascript"
    ]

Linting is incorporated when running npm run dev and when you git commit.

Your code can be linted by running npm run lint to check for validation. You can also run npm run lintfix to apply corrections where it can to your code.

Design

Vuetify was chosen for the styling and theme, which applies the Material design specification. UI components from Vuetify should be used for any user interactable components. Some of the UI components have nuxt support (ie. for routing).

SEO

SEO is handled by Nuxt in the head() method.

Microdata

In addition, Microdata is incorporated to give further context to individual pages (ie. including html attributes itemscope, itemprop, itemtype). To validate your Microdata, use Google's structured data testing tool; using "View page source" of your page, and copying and pasting into the code snippet.

i18n

Translation of SEO text is handled by nuxt-i18n. Please see the nuxt-i18n SEO guide on how it works and other configuration.

Translation (i18n)

The i18n framework is configured with nuxt-i18n and is integrated with vue-i18n.

Routing

Please see the nuxt-i18n routing guide.

Translate

To translate text:

• Recommended: In VS Code, use the i18n Ally extension
• Use BabelEdit and load the .babel file in the root of the project. If there are new .vue components, they need to be added in (by file or by folder). If translation needs to be sent to a 3rd party translator, BabelEdit can export the translation to a CSV which can be sent off to the translator. Once completed, import the CSV in to BabelEdit to apply the completed translations.
• Alternatively, use the FOSS program called i18n Manager to manage translation text.

Testing

Unit testing is done using Jest and can be run by the command: npm run test.

Please see the guide on testing single file components with Jest.

Tip: Don't write unit test for every single case. Instead, the next time you get an error in your development, write a unit test in the /test folder to help validate your code.

E2E Testing

Cypress E2E testing quickly verifies whether each web page is working properly and that API calls are properly returned.

#install cypress
npm install cypress --save-dev

#run e2e tests
npm run cypress:open