A beginner's exercise in full-stack web development.
Elephancy is a tiny content display system. The objective of this project is to learn
- Http
- Server-side programming (currently Go)
- Client-side programming (Typescript/Javascript/CSS/HTML)
- Possibly data bases in the future, currently it's "flat-file" only.
Note that the dependencies listed below are only necessary on your local machine. Once everything is compiled on the local machine, a sinlge Go binary and all the resources can be uploaded to the server. No further dependencies need to be installed on the server.
The Client-side frontend is written in Typescript. To compile this into javascript that runs in a web-browser, you will need:
- typescript
- webpack
- awesome-typescript-loader
- source-map-loader
To install these, go to the directory frontendclient/typescript and run
npm install -g webpack
npm install --save-dev typescript awesome-typescript-loader source-map-loader
Furthermore, Typescript needs to know about the standard node.js modules:
npm install --save @types/node
Then run webpack to generate the Javascript code
webpack
Both are written in Go. In the folder /elephancy, run
go build
./elephancy
Open http://localhost:8080/ in a browser.