Typeddocker

This repository is still under development and not ready for reuse.

Docker + Yarn + Electron + Gulp + TypeScript

Goal

• Boilerplate to allow building complex TypeScript applications served as a vendor indepentant website or a desktop application

It is not...

• an actual application
• thing that force you to some UI framework
• uncommon problem
• full web stack - you should use some varnish, nginx, elb in front

Ingridients

• Core technologies
  • Docker - to ship it vendor independent
  • TypeScript - ES6/7/8 + types + decorators + interfaces
  • Sass - most popular CSS D.R.Y. language
  • HTML - because it's there
• Framework / Engine
  • Express (Node 8) - just serve, no magic
  • Electron - windows, osx, linux
  • Vanilla
    • because React vs Angular vs Vue 2017
    • because you can choose one or few or all

Usage

cd docker
./restart.deamon.sh

Contribute

• fork -> code -> test -> PR -> merge -> repeat
• be constructive

Structure

/docker
  /compose
    /app
      /src
        /apps
          /angular - TBD, example, deployed to public/angular
          /electron - TBD< electron node process
          /express - express server app
          /react - TBD, example, deployed to public/react
          /vanilla - example, deployed to public
          /vue - example, deployed to public/vue
        /node_modules - not checked in, shared for all projects
        gulpfile.js
        package.json
        tsconfig.json
        yarn.lock
      /Dockerfile
    /nginx - tbd
    .env - to be excluded from the repo
    .env.json - to be exluded from the repo
/volumes

Use cases

• App is composed of:
  • backend which serves files and expose microservices
  • frontend which can be one or many applicaitons using one or many frameworks
    • applications are distributed across folders
    • applicaitons share cookies/localstorage because of the same domain/process

To Do

[x] Docker [x] Gulp [x] Sass [ ] Vanilla [x] Angular 4 [x] Angular 4 AOT [ ] React [ ] Vue [ ] Jasmine [ ] Travis [ ] Protractor [ ] Istanbul

Web application

I====================================I
I Docker                             I
I               |-------------|---> serve
I               |   Express   |      I
I               |-------------|<--> microservices
I                      ^             I
I                      |             I
I |------|  1-n |-------------|      I
I | Gulp |----->| HTML/JS/CSS |      I
I |------|      |-------------|      I
I     ^                              I
I     |                              I
I |--------------------------------| I
I | Source: TypeScript, Scss, HTML | I
I |--------------------------------| I
I====================================I

• Shipped as docker container
• Source is tranformed on startup by gulp tasks
• Dist files are served by express
• Microservices are exposed by express
  • Thanks to express we can do serverside rendering

Electron application

I====================================I
I Electron executab                  I
I               |-------------|      I
I          /--->|     Main    |<--> microservices
I          |    |-------------|      I
I          |                         I
I          |    |-------------|      I
I          |    |    Render   |---> serve
I          |/-->| HTML/JS/CSS |      I
I          |    |-------------|      I
I==========|=========================I
           |         
I==========|=========================I    
I Docker   |                         I       
I       |------|                     I
I       | Gulp |                     I
I       |------|                     I
I          ^                         I
I          |                         I
I |--------------------------------| I
I | Source: TypeScript, Scss, HTML | I
I |--------------------------------| I
I====================================I

• Source is tranformed on build by gulp tasks
• Dist files are served by electron main process
• Microservices are exposed by main process (ipc)
• Shipped as executable (.exe, .app) or update package (.zip, .nupkg)

Solution

I====================================I
I Docker               |---------|   I
I                    /-| Express |   I
I         / \       /  |---------|   I
I     web/desktop -<                 I
I         \ /       \                I     |----------|  
I          ^         \---------------------| Electron |  
I          |                         I     |----------|  
I    |-------------|                 I
I    | HTML/JS/CSS |                 I
I    |-------------|                 I
I          ^                         I
I          |                         I
I       |------|                     I
I       | Gulp |                     I
I       |------|                     I
I          ^                         I
I          |                         I
I |--------------------------------| I
I | Source: TypeScript, Scss, HTML | I
I |--------------------------------| I
I====================================I

• Docker
  • cares about enironment and requirements
• TypeScript, Scss, HTML
  • shared source files
• Gulp
  • produce dist files from source files
  • can watch source file changes to update dist (dev mode)
  • can run karma/jasmine/protractor/cucumber
  • startup express or builds electron distibutable and packages it
• Express
  • Serves static files from dist folder
    • HTML
    • JavaScript (es5)
    • CSS3
    • SVG, fonts, PNG
  • Expose microservices
    • via websockets
• Electron
  • Serves static files from build folder
    • as above
  • Expose microservices
    • use electron ipc protocol

Licence

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017-present, Pushfor Limited.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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