Tools needed to run this app:

• node and npm Once you have these, install the following as globals:
  npm install -g gulp karma karma-cli webpack

• npm install -g gulp karma karma-cli webpack install global cli dependencies
• npm install to install dependencies

Here's a list of available tasks:

• webpack
  • runs Webpack, which will transpile, concatenate, and compress (collectively, "bundle") all assets and modules into dist/bundle.js. It also prepares index.html to be used as application entry point, links assets and created dist version of our application.
• serve
  • starts a dev server via webpack-dev-server, serving the client folder.
• watch
  • alias of serve
• default (which is the default task that runs when typing gulp without providing an argument)
  • runs serve.

To run the tests, run npm test or karma start.

Karma combined with Webpack runs all files matching *.spec.js inside the app folder. This allows us to keep test files local to the component--which keeps us in good faith with continuing to build our app modularly. The file spec.bundle.js is the bundle file for all our spec files that Karma will run.

Be sure to define your *.spec.js files within their corresponding component directory. You must name the spec file like so, [name].spec.js. If you don't want to use the .spec.js suffix, you must change the regex in spec.bundle.js to look for whatever file(s) you want. Mocha is the testing suite and Chai is the assertion library. If you would like to change this, see karma.conf.js.

Mock data template for http://www.json-generator.com/

[
  '{{repeat(7, 10)}}',
  {
    id: '{{guid()}}',
    name: '{{firstName()}} {{surname()}}',
    registered: '{{date(new Date(2014, 0, 1), new Date(), "YYYY-MM-ddThh:mm:ss Z")}}',
    picture: 'http://lorempixel.com/400/400/business/',
    
    messages: [
      '{{repeat(5, 20)}}',
      {
        id: '{{guid()}}',
		    text: '{{lorem(1, "paragraphs")}}',
        date: '{{date(new Date(2014, 0, 1), new Date(), "YYYY-MM-ddThh:mm:ss Z")}}'
      }
    ]
  }
]