Building and deploying
Maven is the main tool for building and deploying a complete application. It takes care of:
- building the java libraries and webapp(s)
- calling NPM as needed to take care of the frontend builds
- launching both backend and frontend test suites
- creating the final war for deploy into a J2EE container (e.g. Tomcat)
To create the final war, you have several options:
- full build, including submodules and frontend (e.g. GeoStore)
./build.sh [version_identifier] [profiles]
Where version_identifier
is an optional identifier of the generated war that will be shown in the settings panel of the application and profiles is an optional list of comma delimited building profiles (e.g. printing
, ldap
)
- fast build (will use the last compiled version of submodules and compiled frontend)
mvn clean install -Dmapstore2.version=[version_identifier] [profiles]
- release build (produces also the binary)
mvn clean install -Dmapstore2.version=[version_identifier] -Prelease
Building the documentation
MapStore uses JSDoc to annotate the components, so the documentation can be automatically generated using docma. Please see http://usejsdoc.org/ for further information about code documentation.
Refer to the existing files to follow the documentation style:
To install docma:
npm install -g docma
While developing you can generate the documentation to be accessible in the local machine by:
npm run doctest
The resulting doc will be accessible from http://localhost:8081/mapstore/docs/
For the production deploy a different npm task must be used:
npm run doc
The documentation will be accessible from the /mapstore/docs/ path
The generated folders can be removed with:
npm run cleandoc
Understanding frontend building tools
Frontend building is delegated to NPM and so leverages the NodeJS ecosystem.
In particular:
- a package.json file is used to configure frontend dependencies, needed tools and building scripts
- babel is used for ES6/7 and JSX transpiling integrated with the other tools (e.g. webpack)
- webpack-dev-server is used to host the development application instance
- mocha/expect is used as a testing framework (with BDD style unit-tests)
- webpack: as the bundling tool, for development (see webpack.config.js), deploy (see prod-webpack.config.js) and test (see test.webpack.js)
- karma is used as the test suite runner, with several plugins to allow for custom reporting, browser running and so on; the test suite running is configured through different configuration files, for single running or continuous testing
- istanbul/coveralls are used for code coverage reporting
Index of main npm scripts
Command | Description |
---|---|
npm install |
download dependencies and init developer environment |
npm start |
start development instance |
npm run compile |
run single build / bundling |
npm test |
run test suite once |
npm run continuoustest |
run continuous test suite running (useful during developing) |
npm run lint |
run ESLint checks |
npm run mvntest |
run tests from Maven |
npm run travis |
run the test build used for travis |
Including the printing engine in your build
The printing module is not included in official builds by default.
To build your own version of MapStore with the this module, you can use the printing profile running the build script:
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For more information or troubleshooting about the printing module you can see the dedicated section