LemonMart

LemonMart was implemented with a Route-first approach to designing SPAs.

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LemontMart has been developed in support of my book Angular 6 for Enterprise-Ready Web Applications. You can get the book on http://AngularForEnterprise.com.

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Router-first Approach

A router-first approach to SPA design will save development teams, large and small, significant waste in duplicative work, and re-architecting of the code base to enable better collaboration or achieve sub-second first meaningful paints in your application.

In order to pull off a router-first implementation, you need to:

1. Define user roles and a site-map early on,
2. Design with lazy loading in mind, leveraging router outlets, auxiliary paths and smart link tracking,
3. Implement a walking-skeleton navigation experience and validate, allowing multiple teams to execute seamlessly,
4. Design around major data components, using stateless data-driven components using RxJS/BehaviorSubjects,
5. Be disciplined in sticking to a decoupled component architecture, allowing remixing the UX quickly to respond to changes in requirements without having to re-architect the codebase,
6. Differentiate between user controls and components to appropriate use binding, resolve and auth guards,
7. With TypeScript classes, interfaces, enums, validators and pipes maximize code reuse

Design Artifacts

Head over to the Wiki for user roles, site maps, data entity diagrams and user mock ups: https://github.com/duluca/lemon-mart/wiki.

Build

• npm run build:prod to build a production optimized version of the app.
• npm run docker:debug to run tests and build a containerized version of the app.
• Dockerfile.integration is a multi-stage Dockerfile that can be used to build and test the app in various CI environments in a consistent mannger. The optimized image generated in the last step, can then be deployed to any Docker host, including AWS, Heroku, Zeit Now and Azure.

Swagger Mock Server

Swagger, in a yaml/json format, establishes a data contract between the front-end and back-end. Using code generators, you can create a mock server that responds to requests with auto-generated or customized data. A sample server can be found here: https://github.com/duluca/lemon-mart-swagger-server.

• npm run mock:start to build a production optimized version of the app, running on port 8080, connected to the mock server.
• npm run mock:stop to stop

Developers

Pre-requisites

• Do NOT install @angular/cli or typescript globally to avoid version mismatch issues across multiple projects.
• Run npx @angular/cli new app-name --routing to create a new Angular app with basic routing wired.
  • If you have trouble with this command, try npx -p @angular/cli new app-name --routing
• To run ng commands from within the project directory, preprend npx to commands, like npx ng build.
• To continue using ng without having to prepend npx, configure shell autofallback as described here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx#shell-auto-fallback.

During Development

• Run npm start for a developmenet server. Navigate to http://localhost:5000/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.
• Run npm test to execute the unit tests via Karma.
• Run npm run e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Code scaffolding

• Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Further help with Angular CLI

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 1.6.3. To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.

Full-Stack Setup with Docker Compose and Deploying to AWS

See my example project here https://github.com/excellalabs/minimal-mean