Add final step for building and testing in non-Dartium browsers

[sethladd]

Can you add a final step for how to build the app and open in Firefox, safari, etc ?

Thanks!

[a14n]

I just read Chapter 7: Production Deployment. I can't imagine someone with only 1 or 2 hours of Dart practice to dive into this part. It's really for Dart masters !

For instance :

• is it mandatory to use a generator ?
• can the bin/generator.dart file be copy and paste safely without change ? It's not so obvious.

I can add a last part for the ShadowDom polyfill but I'll be happy to skip the generation section if possible.

[sethladd]

I totally understand, chapter 7 is like voodoo. :) Developers shouldn't have to do half of those steps.

What about just telling developers about pub build for now?

I've also opened dart-archive/angular.dart#475 to ask that we don't need to manually add shadow_dom.

cc @kathyw for her thoughts.

[a14n]

Can we close this one ?

[sethladd]

We can't close it yet. We need a Step 9: building and testing in browsers.

Topics:

• running pub build
• explaining what happened and what the build dir is for
• starting a local HTTP server (cd build && python -m SimpleHTTPServer as an example)
• opening the app in your favorite (non-Dartium) browser

As far as I could tell, the code lab doesn't show you how the app works in other browsers.

Thanks!

[mbreton]

Hi,
The idea of this step could be cool. But build a simple HTTP Dart server instead of a python server (may be not installed) should be a better idea ? The shell could look like (from the root of the project):
$: pub build && dart server.dart

[a14n]

About the last topic : since ShadowDom polyfill is here from step-1. At any step we can use Run as Javascript (in my case the browser used is FF ). You can also paste the url in an other browser.

I agree on pub build and to run a server we can simply add a bin/server.dart :

import 'dart:io';
import 'package:http_server/http_server.dart';
void main() {
  HttpServer.bind(InternetAddress.ANY_IP_V4, 8080).then((server) {
    new VirtualDirectory('../build/web').serve(server);
  });
}

[sethladd]

I like it.

[sethladd]

pub build should now work for steps 1 - 9

Can we add this as a final step?

Up to you if you want to involve the Dart HTTP server. That part is optional :)