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Geotrek-rando is FLOSS dedicated to display geographic and touristic contents.
These contents may be provided by linking this app either to the API of a Geotrek-admin instance or directly to static datas generated by a Geotrek-admin instance (Cf. [data source][]).
Geotrek-rando is build as a [Single Page Application][SPA] using AngularJS as main application framework, Leaflet for displaying the maps, and many other smaller libraries and utilities. Everything is bound as a single javascript bundle using Browserify, managed through Gulp tasks.
The first version (v1) was builded on top of Django framework, like Geotrek-admin. But maintaining such a backend application was a kind of lose of time with no added value. Since the second version, Geotrek-rando is now a [Rich Internet application][RIA] which has a very small hosting footprint.
As Geotrek-rando works as a [SPA][], you only need an http server like [Nginx][] or Apache. (Cf. http server)
You'll also need to build the javascript main bundle which require [nodejs and npm][node]* to be available on the building environment. (Cf. Installing NodeJS)
Building environment could be either the same as your http server, or a local machine from which you'll sync generated files to the main server instance
* In recent versions of Geotrek-rando, you'll find the recommended version of Node JS into the .nvmrc file in the root directory of the project.
### For developpers
Some npm packages used for tests may need a build environment for compiling platform specific binaries. On debian-like environments, build-essential should satisfy this requirements.
See contribute section for more details about participating to Geotrek-rando development.
Download and extract latest release of Geotrek-Rando from GitHub.
You may also download sources by cloning git repository.
cd Geotrek-rando-*
npm install
npm run dist
It will :
- Create missing config files
- Create the main JavaScript bundle as
dist/public/scripts/rando.js - Compile sass files and bundle them in
dist/public/styles/rando.cssanddist/public/styles/rando-vendors.css
For automaticly building bundles when editing files, use :
npm run watch
Most of the settings (mainly everything about contents) has to be done directly in Geotrek-admin, but some parameters regarding Geotrek-rando have to be set up in a specific file. (Cf. Settings)
There is also a way to adjust the look and feel of the user interface by creating some specific files which will be used in place of defaults. For exemple: you could have your own header or footer files allowing you to include new elements without having to make change* to Geotrek-rando core files. (Cf. Customization)
NB: Each time you add, delete or modify a setting or a customization file, you have to rebuild the main javascript bundle.
* Making changes to core files of Geotrek-rando could prevent the possibility of upgrading it without losing your changes.
If you're wondering what means Libre in FLOSS, it essentially imply four freedoms :
- The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
- The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
[Nginx]: http://nginx.org/) [node]: https://nodejs.org/ "NodeJS" [RIA]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application [SPA]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application "Single Page Application"