Spent a couple of days working on figuring out development on the Angular portal in 8.2. My findings so far:
- VS code 1IM extension:
- Sort of works, for initial setup and compilation
- For every start of VS code, you have to define the development folder. This overwrites all existing files, so it makes the extension completely unusable.
- Setting the "API client" gives an error, I've no idea what this does.
- Summa summarum, not usable at all at this point. Any development must be done with the command line imxclient
- Building
- Several tarballs missing from imx-modules, these can be found in the installation media under addons (why are these not bundled in the project?)
- All imx libs must be explicitly added with ng add to npm packages
- Several build files missing, some projects do not build oob. I was able to create these manually.
- There are several projects missing completely from the sources
- Dev server does not start because of the missing projects (like DPR)
- I did manage to build the required modules (ATT, QBM, QER, TSB) and managed to build the actual portal project
- Branches, publishing
- No idea what is the purpose of branches? I can create a branch and compile it, also select it and compile in the API designer, but no idea how to "view" a branch with browser.
- No tools to merge branches, no apparent change management i.e. how to transport changes or how to manage chg labels with these.
- How are changes published to IIS? No matter how much I build, full compile DB and reset IIS, I see no changes. Is there a publish button somewhere? Can't see changes either when running "run-apiserver" from imxclient.
Any info on how to actually publish the portal project would be nice.
