BlinkMobile Forms

execute a definition, creating Models and Views to capture data from users

Semantic Versioning

This project follows Semantic Versioning principles.

Approach

A high-priority goal for this library is that it be possible to extend. Customers should be able to:

• use the default implementation as-is
• tweak behaviour of one or more components to better suit their needs
• replace in full the default implementation of a particular component

Core (Models)

• Backbone.JS Models
• field validation
• i18n / translations of all visible text
• JavaScript API

DOM (Views)

• Backbone.JS Views
• DOM manipulation

We target jQueryMobile 1.3.x for our Views now, but it should be possible to reimplement this layer without affecting work done in the Core.

BIC integration

• network access
• client-side persistent-storage

These are not handled with the Forms project. We expect other parts of a solution (e.g. BIC) to provide these as services that Forms may consume.

Instructions

Prerequisites

You'll need Node.JS and NPM. NPM is normally bundled with Node.JS.

You'll need the Grunt command-line tool which you should install with:

npm -g install grunt-cli

Note: take care to install this "globally" i.e. with -g

Build Process

As you've probably guessed, we use Grunt as our task-based build tool for JavaScript.

In the root of the project's working directory, run:

npm install; npm update
    npm test

This installs the required plugins for Grunt, and then uses Grunt to build the project into build. The build output includes both the core and the jQueryMobile views.