Development and Building

Below are instructions for building the book editor yourself and a layout of how the code is organized.

Building Yourself

1. Create a local branch named gh-pages
2. Run npm install . to download the dependencies
3. Build a minified Javascript file by running r.js (see https://github.com/jrburke/r.js)
4. Add the minified Javscript file, commit, and push the changes back to github

Building Documentation

Documentation is built using docco.

find . -name "*.coffee" | grep -v './lib/' | grep -v './node_modules' | xargs ./node_modules/docco/bin/docco

Check the ./docs directory to read through the different modules.

Directory Layout

• atc/models.coffee Backbone Models

• atc/views.coffee Marionette Views

• atc/views/* Handlebars Templates

• atc/nls/*.coffee i18n strings (and HTML) http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#i18n

• lib/ 3rd party libraries

• config/* Custom configuration of 3rd party libraries (Aloha Editor and MathJax)

• config/atc-config.coffee Includes paths to 3rd party libs so we can minify them

• atc.coffee The starting point for all javascript

• atc.less Includes all other css files (including external libs) so we can minify

Adding a 3rd party library

1. If a npm version of it exists, add it to package.json

2. Otherwise, add it to install-libs.sh (which is called when you run npm install .)

3. Add the lib to config/atc-config.coffee (both in path and shim)

   • The name should be all lowercase
   • Use a - if the library name is more than one word
   • Don't use / or .

4. Use it in your module by adding it to the dependencies in define