Rectangular

An app in a box

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Table of Contents

• User Manual
• Overview
• Installation

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Overview

Focus on apps, not ops.

Rectangular is a developer-friendly front-end system for building world-class web applications.

It offers the following benefits:

• An interactive installer
• A bare-bones application
• A powerful build toolkit

The installer asks you a few questions and downloads the bare-bones application. Once the application has been installed, it's ready for you to work your magic. Everything is well-organized, configurable and easy to operate. The build toolkit is used to help put everything together.

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These goodies are baked into Rectangular:

• AngularJS
• Autoprefixer
• BabelJS
• Bundles
• Development Server
• ES6/ES2015
• ESLint
• Fuse-Box
• Gulp
• Hot Module Reloading
• ImmutableJS
• PUG
• PurifyCSS
• SASS
• Stylelint
• TypeScript
• UI-Router

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You can optionally include more goodies during the install process:

• Angular Material - A UI component framework implementation of Google's Material Design specification.
• Angular Moment - MomentJS directives for your AngularJS app.
• Angular Strap - A set of Bootstrap 3+ directives for your AngularJS app.
• Angular Translate - Translate your AngularJS app.
• Bluebird - A full-featured JavaScript promises library with unmatched performance.
• D3 - Chart information with data-driven documents.
• Lodash - A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras.
• MomentJS - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript.
• NG File Upload - Lightweight directive to upload files with optional FileAPI shim for cross-browser support.
• Restangular - A service that simplifies common GET, POST, DELETE, and UPDATE requests.
• Socket.IO - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• Teleprint - Prints HTML from a URL, from the DOM, or from a string.

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Installation

# Download the install script
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abbotto/rectangular/master/install/install

# Make the script executable
chmod +x install

# Run the script and fill in the blanks
./install

# Go to the app directory
cd myApp

# Start developing
npm start