Sqwidget

This is a WIP setup for helping develop widgets.

Installation and Running

npm install grunt-cli -g
npm install coffee-script -g
npm install bower -g
npm install
grunt
bower install

Present Setup

This is a development only setup at present. It needs build tasks etc.

On running grunt, three development servers are launched:

• index.html is loaded from http://localhost:8000. This is to simulate the third party website that will actually host the widget.
• widget.js is loaded from http://localhost:8001. This is to simulate the sqwidget itself being loaded from a server.
• The actual widgets that use the embed code are loaded from http://localhost:8002.

This setup ensures that we always develop with an environment that's close to the real environment.

To-Dos

• Add cleanslate or similar to sqwidget
• Write a couple of example widgets so that we know how they are supposed to be loaded. These widgets should get their data from another server (via JSONP)
  • Each widget may have CSS dependencies. Load them.
  • Look into i18n work with RequireJS for internationalisation.
• If possible, remove the dependency on jQuery.

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