Unpoly

Unobtrusive JavaScript framework for server-side applications

Unpoly enables fast and flexible frontends with minimal changes to your server-side code.

This repository is home to both the Unpoly JavaScript code and its (optional) bindings for Ruby on Rails (unpoly-rails gem).

Getting started

• See unpoly.com for more information and JavaScript API documentation.
• See CHANGELOG.md for notable changes.
• See README_RAILS.md documentation of the Rails bindings.

Development

Running tests

Overview:

• This currently requires Ruby
• There's a Rails app in spec_app
• Jasmine tests for Unpoly live in spec_app/spec/javascripts
• RSpec tests for the unpoly-rails gem live in spec_app/spec/controllers

Install dependencies for tests:

• Install Ruby 2.3.8
• Install Bundler by running gem install bundler
• cd into spec_app
• Install dependencies by running bundle install

To run Jasmine tests for Unpoly:

• cd into spec_app
• Start the Rails server by running rails server
• Access http://localhost:3000/specs to see the Jasmine test runner

To run RSpec tests for the unpoly-rails gem:

• cd into spec_app
• Run rspec

Making a new release

We are currently feeding four release channels:

• Manual download from GitHub
• npm
• Bower (which is based on Git and version tags)
• Rubygems (as the unpoly-rails gem)

We always release to all channel simultaneously.

To prepare a new version:

1. Edit lib/unpoly/rails/version.rb and bump the version number. Use semantic versioning.
2. Add an entry to CHANGELOG.md
3. Commit and push the version bump and CHANGELOG.md

Now we can release a new version. This requires your to be logged into Rubygems and npm:

1. From the project root, type rake publish:build. This will output minified JS and CSS files to the dist folder. It also updates the package.json for npm.
2. Commit and push the generated files. There is a rake task rake publish:commit that helps with this.
3. From the project root, type rake publish:release. This will publish a new gem version to Rubygems.org.
4. It will also push a tag for this version, which Bower requires for its own versioning scheme. Finally it publishes to npm.

Always remember to build, commit and push build artifacts before calling rake publish:release so the Git tag points to the correct commit.

If you have done this process a few times and know what you're doing, you can call rake publish:all to run all these steps in sequence.

After you have published all release channels, remember to:

1. Update unpoly.com so users see the new version, CDN link and CHANGELOG.
2. Send a message to the E-mail group with the title "Unpoly X.Y.Z released". You can copy the relevant CHANGELOG part from here.

Credits

• Henning Koch from makandra (@triskweline on Twitter)