The Firefox Marketplace frontend.
Installation and Usage
This will start a web server on http://localhost:8675.
Building for Production
Our build process bundles up our JS, minifies our CSS, compiles our templates, and extracts locales into JS modules. To run the build process:
This will generate files including:
src/media/templates.js
src/media/js/include.js
src/media/js/include.js.map
src/media/css/include.css
Developing the Packaged App
To package the Marketplace frontend, run:
make package
This will output a package and output to package/archives/. You can use
WebIDE to install this package in the device or simulator.
Further details can be found in the Marketplace documentation.
Marketplace Mock API
We have an instance of a mocked version of the Marketplace API at
https://flue.paas.allizom.org. Documentation can be found in
marketplace-api-mock's repository.
iframed Package
We currently ship with an iframed version of the Marketplace frontend. It is a package that contains an iframe pointing to the Marketplace website. See more details within the iframe package directory.
Localizing
A detailed guide to extracting strings and creating JS language packs is located on the wiki.
Tests
We use CasperJS to write UI tests and mocha, chai and sinon for unit tests.
Running Unit Tests
This will launch the karma test runner that will run the unit tests in a new instance of Firefox.
Running Functional and UI Tests
Before running the functional and UI tests, your settings_local.js should have
api_url and media_url pointing to an instance of
marketplace-api-mock. You can
easily achieve this by setting the API environment variable when calling
make serve, this will overwrite your current api_url and media_url settings.
First, start a server with:
Then, run the tests against it. We support both PhantomJS and SlimerJS to run tests in
WebKit and Gecko, respectively. To run both use make uitest, if you just want to run
them in one browser make uitest-phantom or make uitest-slimer.
Running Functional and UI Tests in SlimerJS
SlimerJS requires a path to a firefox binary. make uitest-slimer will try to use
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox which is the path to your default
Firefox on Mac. This path might not work for you and best results are achieved by using
Firefox 30. You can download a copy of Firefox 30 on
ftp.mozilla.org. To
set the path to your firefox use the SLIMERJSLAUNCHER environment variable. You
might want to call export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/path/to/firefox in your shell's setup
script.
SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/Applications/Firefox-30.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox make uitest-slimer
Running a Single Functional or UI Test
UITEST_FILE=tests/ui/<PATH_TO_TEST_FILE> make uitest
Serving with Nginx
If you wish to serve the Marketplace frontend with nginx, which is often useful for keeping all the Marketplace projects on the same domain, read about serving Fireplace with Nginx.
