I am just learning Umbraco and I have a basic template that has just one alias. What kind of controller should I code for it? Could you please give me an example to reach my alias from js frameworks?
Solution
I have used UmbracoCms.RestApi extension from NuGet and solved my problem.
You can use default endpoints to get properties that you have created in Umbraco Cms before with that extension. There is a video about that.
I am working on writing some automation script and it is project's requirement to work with WebDriverIO( node js and typescript). I am stuck in a situation where I have to get some data from web page and I can't use scroll(project requirement) so I want to zoom out(like ctrl+ -). According to WebDriverIO page https://webdriver.io/docs/api/browser/keys.html I can use there Keys module. But it does not work.
Need some help with it.
For the record I have been using selenium webdriver with c# and there I have done this thing using IJavascriptExecuter. But here I am stuck and couldn't find anything on web related to it.
Thanks in Advance!
I am working on a JHipster project (monolith, angular 4 currently) and recently have been investigating the use of dynamic forms.
I came across the following:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular2-json-schema-form
Should JHipster move to natively support this feature ?
Any advise on embracing dynamic forms into the current jhipster generated client side typescript code ?
I am thinking of modifying the client side model objects manually to incorporate form data that can be be used in dynamic forms.. and removing most of the HTML form code.
Thanks,
Fergal
I'm trying to find a way to import the Prismic.io javascript kit in my Angular 2 project.
Is there a way to do so ? I tried to understand their Angular2-starter but it's not documented to do it on an existing project.
I want to know if there is a way to import node modules directly into Angular2 ?
Thanks in advance !
You need to be more specific, what does it mean import modules directly into angular 2?
First, to have common ground about modules:
Modules are a core feature of javascript, either natively in ES6 or using bundlers (e.g WebPack, SystemJS, etc...)
Importing a modules is not related to Angular 2
As for Angular 2, if by using directly you mean being able to inject service via the dependency injection then this is just a configuration operation done in angular.
In the case of an external, 3rd party, NON Angular library you might want to wrap it with an angular service which is then injected.
The starter project you linked to does so, it defined a prismic-service class that wrap the original prismic library so you only work against the wrapper class.
You can extend this class to support more features as you go.
Some notes on extending 3rd part libraries in angular 2 vs angular 1:
AngularJS (1) developers approach 3rd party libraries with caution. Since AngularJS has an internal change detection mechanism that Angular has to manage, execute and control. Any 3rd party library that modifies data that directly or indirectly effects the UI must also trigger the internal change detection in angular.
In Angular2 change detection is triggered by generic async operations such as events, user interactions, etc... Angular does not manage it directly, it is triggered automatically as if it was magic. This is possible due to the help of Zones which is both a concept and a library. Angular implements NgZone.
Basically it means that you can use prismic directly or as a wrapped angular service, it doesn't matter, it will just work.
I guess that most of your questions will focus on integration, which is how to take the data from the API and make a UI out of it.
The prismic Development kit provides a REST API for retrieving metadata about UI elements and data that they contain.
The client (in a SPA, like angular 2) needs to display actual UI components from the metadata.
In other words you need to build Angular 2 components that correspond to the components in prismic.
A common JavaScript library that builds a UI from prismic REST API data will not work here. It will generate HTML code that is not part of the angular application and does no participate in change detection, lifecycle hooks and routing.
All components in angular must be compiled first, at the bootstrap or at build if offline compiler is used.
The minimal approach is to get the HTML markup from the server and inject it into an angular component acting as a wrapper. This allows control over the lifecycle of a page and used for routing, page transition animation etc...
The starter project provides such a wrapper called DocumentPage. The DocumentPage has logic to download it's content (via route parameters) from prismic and display it as raw HTML. See here
The html markup retrieved from prismic is NOT bindable and you can't apply change detection and expressions in it. If you split it into chunks you can apply some angular magic in between.
So, it's quite simple actually, the starter project is a simple wrapper around the prismic framework in both API and UI. Angular has a small part in the application as it acts as a simple wrapper/container. The actual content is driven by prismic. I don't see benefits using angular with such approach, it doesn't do any harm but it's not really an angular app.
A proper angular2 prismic app would be built upon pure metadata representation of components which are implemented in angular as angular components. It is quite an advanced app that requires dynamic component creation as well as advanced routing implementation with lazy loading (to introduce new components on the fly).
I have a template to be rendered with angular and a node js application.
I want to make some kind of require('angular'); from my node application and use it's compile service to compile an email template and send the email with node.
Is this possible? Or is it better to look for other alternatives such as this one http://documentup.com/niftylettuce/node-email-templates
Thanks in advance.
At the moment as far as I know no one has figured out how to correctly render angular templates in node. There has been discussion about it, but I don't know of any working module available. For emails, use one of the many readily available templating libraries (mustache is at least similar in syntax to angular). Angular is really geared toward dynamic, interactive DOM changes which you don't need on the server, so it's generally not that great a fit. Rendering email templates and sending them with node is however very straightforward and there are many good modules available to help with that.