COMAC Navigator Frontend

UI part of the COMAC Navigator.

The frontend runs in the browser and connects over HTTP to the COMAC Navigator Backend to fetch data.

How to run

1. Run COMAC Navigator Backend.
2. If necessary edit the url pointing to the Backend. The dafault value is appropriate when the Backend is run on the localhost using the default port. The config file is scripts/config.js.
3. Serve in any way you like (for example using an Apache HTTP Server) or simply open index.html locally in your browser.

Documentation

Documentation of JavaScript files is in JSDoc 3 format.

How to generate documentation

Generated files will be outputed to the out folder (which is added to the .gitignore file).

jsdoc scripts
open out/index.html

Supported browsers

This application was tested on:

• OS X 10.9.5 in latest versions of: Chrome, Firefox, Safari
• Linux in latest versions of: Chrome, Firefox

Technologies used

• TypeScript for better JavaScript,
• D3.js 3.4.13 for graph presentation,
• RequireJS 2.1.15 for handling modules & libraries (JavaScript doesn't have built-in code module support),
• Bootstrap 3.1.1 for UI elements (Buttons, Icons, etc.), CSS and Bootstrap jQuery plugin (for Modals, Dropdowns & Tabs),
• jQuery 2.0.3 for manipulating DOM elements,