Win10.Rocks HTML5/JS Starter

Windows 10 starting architecture for HTML5/JS developers

Features:

• CommonJS Business Layer (NodeJS friendly!)
• Visual Studio 2015 Test Runner Mocha integration
• Svelte Application Architecture (Service, Provider, Helper, Messages)
• MVVM Support (ViewBase, ViewModelBase, Commands, Events)
• Indexed Memory Storage with [LokiJS]( (supports momento with Storage Provider)
• Message-based Navigation Architecture (Data Posting, View/ViewModel Life-Cycle, BackStack)
• Bring-Your-Own-UI (WinJS 4.0 included by default)

#Setup

• Install Visual Studio 2015 RC
• Install Python 2.7.9 at https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/
  • set the PYTHON env variable to local python.exe
• Install NodeJS tools at https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/releases
• (Temporary) Install Visual Studio 2010 C++ Expression (https://goo.gl/SsCI2D)
  • package node-pgy requires this but will be updated Q4 to reference new VS2015 deps
• run npm install in the repo root
• run npm install in the test folder

#Building

##Enviromental Variables Prefix Gulp command with variable (e.g. Version_Major=1 gulp build-win10)

• Version_Major
• Version_Minor
• Version_Revision
• Version_Build

##Targets

• gulp clean
  • deletes ./publish
• gulp win10-build
  • Test package deployed at ./publish/win10/*_Test
  • OneStore package at ./publish/win10/*.appxupload
• gulp win8.1-build
  • Test package deployed at ./publish/win8.1/*_Test
  • OneStore package at ./publish/win8.1/*.appxupload
• gulp web-build
  • Web root distributed to ./publish/web
  • Run local development host with gulp web-host

#Known Issues

• Mocha Debugger Broken for some environments - microsoft/nodejstools#79