Node.js

If you are not planning to change the codebase, you don´t have to read on.

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PATHFINDER comes along with a simple, Gulp based, build process. There are two predefined Gulp tasks that will help you:

• default task is designed for "continuous development" environment
• production task is designed for "production deployment" environment

Gulp is a NPM module, therefore we need to install Node.js with NPM first.

1. Install Node.js >=v6.0.1 with NPM >=v3.8.6

Hint: The Windows installer of Node.js will install NPM as well. You don´t have to install NPM afterwards.

• Installing Node.js via package manager

2. Install npm-check-updates [optional]

To keep all your node packages up2date, you should install this module. We do this installation global (-g) in order to easy access the "check for updates" function from the SHELL.

$ npm install -g npm-check-updates

This will global install npm-check-updates

3. Install all required node modules from the /package.json

$ npm install

This will install all required modules and their dependencies local ([PROJECT_ROOT]/node_modules/)

4. Check installation

• $ node -v should show the current Node.js version (e.g. v6.1.0)
• $ npm -v should show the current NPM version (e.g. v3.8.6)
• $ npm list --depth=0 will list all local module installations. The output should look something like this:

G:\webpages\exodus4d\pathfinder>npm list --depth=0
[email protected] H:\webpages\pathfinder
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected] (git://github.com/gulpjs/gulp.git#38246c3f8b6dbb8d4ef657183e92d90c8299e22f)
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
-- [email protected]