erpSystem

This application was generated using JHipster 7.3.1, you can find documentation and help at https://www.jhipster.tech/documentation-archive/v7.3.1.

Deployment

At present the deployment process is generally ran in the following way:

   ng build --prod --output-path ./dist
   

The code in the dist directory is copied into the deployment repo and the following script is ran

   
   forever start server.js

To run with debugger:

  set DEBUG=express:* & node index.js

To run the most recent setup from the deployment repo run the following:

   git clone https://github.com/ghacupha/erp-client-deployment.git
   
   cd erp-client-deployment
   
   npm install
   
   forever start server.js

Test Deployment

Sometimes a test environment needs to be configured alongside a running prod server. The above build can be used to run a several server-client instance when the following environment keys are configured:

• ERP_SYSTEM_DEV_PORT: The port of the backend server
• ERP_SYSTEM_DEV_PORT: The port of the backend server
• SERVER_API_URL: Address of the backend server written in quotes e.g. set SERVER_API_URL="http://localhost:8982/"
• SERVER_API_URL_URL: The address of the backend server without the quotes or the stroke
• SERVER_API_WS_URL: The address of the backend server's web-socker end-point e.g. set SERVER_API_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:8982
• ERP_SYSTEM_DEV_PORT: This is picked from the environment as it should be already configured to enable the server to run severally from a different port
• ERP_CLIENT_DEV_PORT: The port on which the client is to be accessed on a browser. e.g. set ERP_CLIENT_DEV_PORT=8984

Note: If you intend to use a production instance from a container to run tests, the port of that instance is what you use to configure the ERP_SYSTEM_DEV_PORT

All these keys are created to enable a dev instance of this client to access a dev or prod instance of the server depending on the configuration of the later's port

Development

Before you can build this project, you must install and configure the following dependencies on your machine:

1. Node.js: We use Node to run a development web server and build the project. Depending on your system, you can install Node either from source or as a pre-packaged bundle.

After installing Node, you should be able to run the following command to install development tools. You will only need to run this command when dependencies change in package.json.

npm install

We use npm scripts and Angular CLI with Webpack as our build system.

If you are using hazelcast as a cache, you will have to launch a cache server. To start your cache server, run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/hazelcast-management-center.yml up -d

Run the following commands in two separate terminals to create a blissful development experience where your browser auto-refreshes when files change on your hard drive.

./mvnw
npm start

Npm is also used to manage CSS and JavaScript dependencies used in this application. You can upgrade dependencies by specifying a newer version in package.json. You can also run npm update and npm install to manage dependencies. Add the help flag on any command to see how you can use it. For example, npm help update.

The npm run command will list all of the scripts available to run for this project.

PWA Support

JHipster ships with PWA (Progressive Web App) support, and it's turned off by default. One of the main components of a PWA is a service worker.

The service worker initialization code is disabled by default. To enable it, uncomment the following code in src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts:

ServiceWorkerModule.register('ngsw-worker.js', { enabled: false }),

Managing dependencies

For example, to add Leaflet library as a runtime dependency of your application, you would run following command:

npm install --save --save-exact leaflet

To benefit from TypeScript type definitions from DefinitelyTyped repository in development, you would run following command:

npm install --save-dev --save-exact @types/leaflet

Then you would import the JS and CSS files specified in library's installation instructions so that Webpack knows about them: Edit src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts file:

import 'leaflet/dist/leaflet.js';

Edit src/main/webapp/content/scss/vendor.scss file:

@import '~leaflet/dist/leaflet.css';

Note: There are still a few other things remaining to do for Leaflet that we won't detail here.

For further instructions on how to develop with JHipster, have a look at Using JHipster in development.

Using Angular CLI

You can also use Angular CLI to generate some custom client code.

For example, the following command:

ng generate component my-component

will generate few files:

create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.html
create src/main/webapp/app/my-component/my-component.component.ts
update src/main/webapp/app/app.module.ts

JHipster Control Center

JHipster Control Center can help you manage and control your application(s). You can start a local control center server (accessible on http://localhost:7419) with:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/jhipster-control-center.yml up

Building for production

Packaging as jar

To build the final jar and optimize the erpSystem application for production, run:

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify

This will concatenate and minify the client CSS and JavaScript files. It will also modify index.html so it references these new files. To ensure everything worked, run:

java -jar target/*.jar

Then navigate to http://localhost:8980 in your browser.

Refer to Using JHipster in production for more details.

Packaging as war

To package your application as a war in order to deploy it to an application server, run:

./mvnw -Pprod,war clean verify

Testing

To launch your application's tests, run:

./mvnw verify

Client tests

Unit tests are run by Jest. They're located in src/test/javascript/ and can be run with:

npm test

UI end-to-end tests are powered by Protractor, which is built on top of WebDriverJS. They're located in src/test/javascript/e2e and can be run by starting Spring Boot in one terminal (./mvnw spring-boot:run) and running the tests (npm run e2e) in a second one. UI end-to-end tests are powered by Cypress. They're located in src/test/javascript/cypress and can be run by starting Spring Boot in one terminal (./mvnw spring-boot:run) and running the tests (npm run e2e) in a second one.

Lighthouse audits

You can execute automated [lighthouse audits][https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/] with [cypress audits][https://github.com/mfrachet/cypress-audit] by running npm run e2e:cypress:audits. You should only run the audits when your application is packaged with the production profile. The lighthouse report is created in target/cypress/lhreport.html

Other tests

Performance tests are run by Gatling and written in Scala. They're located in src/test/gatling.

To use those tests, you must install Gatling from https://gatling.io/.

For more information, refer to the Running tests page.

Code quality

Sonar is used to analyse code quality. You can start a local Sonar server (accessible on http://localhost:9001) with:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/sonar.yml up -d

Note: we have turned off authentication in src/main/docker/sonar.yml for out of the box experience while trying out SonarQube, for real use cases turn it back on.

You can run a Sonar analysis with using the sonar-scanner or by using the maven plugin.

Then, run a Sonar analysis:

./mvnw -Pprod clean verify sonar:sonar

If you need to re-run the Sonar phase, please be sure to specify at least the initialize phase since Sonar properties are loaded from the sonar-project.properties file.

./mvnw initialize sonar:sonar

For more information, refer to the Code quality page.

Using Docker to simplify development (optional)

You can use Docker to improve your JHipster development experience. A number of docker-compose configuration are available in the src/main/docker folder to launch required third party services.

For example, to start a postgresql database in a docker container, run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/postgresql.yml up -d

To stop it and remove the container, run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/postgresql.yml down

You can also fully dockerize your application and all the services that it depends on. To achieve this, first build a docker image of your app by running:

./mvnw -Pprod verify jib:dockerBuild

Then run:

docker-compose -f src/main/docker/app.yml up -d

For more information refer to Using Docker and Docker-Compose, this page also contains information on the docker-compose sub-generator (jhipster docker-compose), which is able to generate docker configurations for one or several JHipster applications.

Continuous Integration (optional)

To configure CI for your project, run the ci-cd sub-generator (jhipster ci-cd), this will let you generate configuration files for a number of Continuous Integration systems. Consult the Setting up Continuous Integration page for more information.