You can develop an add-on in isolation using the boilerplate already provided by the add-on generator. The project is configured to have the current add-on installed and ready to work with. This is useful to bootstrap an isolated environment that can be used to quickly develop the add-on or for demo purposes. It's also useful when testing an add-on in a CI environment.
It's quite similar when you develop a Plone backend add-on in the Python side, and embed a ready to use Plone build (using buildout or pip) in order to develop and test the package.
The dockerized approach performs all these actions in a custom built docker environment:
- Generates a vanilla project using the official Volto Yo Generator (@plone/generator-volto)
- Configures it to use the add-on with the name stated in the
package.json
- Links the root of the add-on inside the created project
After that you can use the inner dockerized project, and run any standard Volto command for linting, acceptance test or unit tests using Makefile commands provided for your convenience.
Run once
make dev
which will build and launch the backend and frontend containers. There's no need to build them again after doing it the first time unless something has changed from the container setup.
In order to make the local IDE play well with this setup, is it required to run once yarn
to install locally the required packages (ESlint, Prettier, Stylelint).
Run
yarn
Run
make build-backend
make build-addon
Run
make start-dev
This will start both the frontend and backend containers.
After developing, in order to stop the running backend, don't forget to run:
Run
make stop-backend
Run
make lint
Run
make format
Run
make i18n
Run
make test
Run once
make install-acceptance
For starting the servers
Run
make start-test-acceptance-server
The frontend is run in dev mode, so development while writing tests is possible.
Run
make test-acceptance
To run Cypress tests afterwards.
When finished, don't forget to shutdown the backend server.
make stop-test-acceptance-server
Run
make release
For releasing a RC version
Run
make release-rc