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Developing OpenUI5

This page explains the initial setup, development workflow, and test execution for OpenUI5.

Setting up the OpenUI5 Development Environment

OpenUI5 content is developed in an environment based on Node.js. The UI5 Build and Development Tooling is used as development server and build tool.

Basic Setup

The basic setup allows you to start a server for the OpenUI5 project in an easy way:

  1. Install Node.js. This also includes npm, the node package manager.
  2. Clone the OpenUI5 Git repository. You can download and install Git from git-scm.com.
git clone https://github.com/SAP/openui5.git
  1. Install all npm dependencies. Optionally, you can also use Yarn for this, see Advanced Setup.
cd openui5
npm install
  1. Start the server
npm start
  1. Open the TestSuite at http://localhost:8080/test-resources/testsuite/testframe.html
  2. You're done!

Tip: Alternatively you can let your browser open the TestSuite URL automatically by executing npm run testsuite

Configuring the TestSuite Server

The OpenUI5 TestSuite server can be configured using environment variables. For example, to allow remote access to the server, that is, from an interface other than your computer's loopback/localhost, you can configure the server as follows:

OPENUI5_SRV_ACC_RMT_CON=true npm start
Available Server Configurations
  • OPENUI5_SRV_OPEN=index.html
  • OPENUI5_SRV_ACC_RMT_CON=true
  • OPENUI5_SRV_PORT=9090

Advanced Setup

The basic setup described above uses a custom setup focused on starting the UI5 Server for the OpenUI5 TestSuite project in an easy way.

The advanced setup allows you to use the UI5 CLI and all of its features. The use of Yarn is required in this setup, as npm can't handle workspaces yet.

You need to use the advanced setup if you plan to do any of the following:

  • Build an OpenUI5 project.
  • Serve a project with HTTPS or HTTP/2.
  • Use any of the other UI5 CLI features and parameters.

Setup

  1. Install the UI5 build and development tooling CLI globally, see UI5 Tooling: Installing the UI5 CLI.
  2. Install Yarn from here (also see FAQ: What's the thing with Yarn?)
  3. In the OpenUI5 repository root directory, install all dependencies using Yarn. This also links all OpenUI5 libraries between each other.
yarn
  1. Navigate into the TestSuite project and start the UI5 server.
cd src/testsuite
ui5 serve --open index.html

Workflow

Now you can use the UI5 CLI in any of your local OpenUI5 libraries. Check the UI5 CLI documentation for details.

Whenever you make changes to your OpenUI5 repository's node_modules directory (e.g. by executing npm install), you may need to recreate the links between the OpenUI5 libraries. You can always do this by executing yarn in the OpenUI5 root directory. Also see FAQ: What's the thing with Yarn?

Legacy Setup

You can continue to use the legacy Grunt-based setup. However, the setups described above are recommended for working with the OpenUI5 repository.

To use the legacy setup, execute npm run start-grunt. Note that in the past this was the default npm start behavior.

For details, see legacy Grunt development environment documentation.

Differences to the Standard Setups (Basic and Advanced)

  1. /testsuite Path-prefix:

    Standard setup: http://localhost:8080/test-resources/testsuite/testframe.html
    Legacy setup http://localhost:8080/testsuite/test-resources/testsuite/testframe.html

  2. SDK documentation generated by grunt docs can only be served using the legacy setup.

The Development Process

Regular Development: No Build Required

Just modify any source file and reload your browser. Now that's simple, isn't it?

This build-free development process does not feature optimized runtime performance. For example, there are many small requests, which would not be acceptable for remote connections. But it is the most convenient way to modify the OpenUI5 sources. Under the hood there are mainly two mechanisms applied that adapt the sources:

  • The Git repository path contains a folder named like the respective control library (e.g. "sap.m"), which is omitted at runtime. The UI5 CLI server is mapping the locations.
  • The CSS files are transformed (server-side) by the LESS pre-processor during the first request after a CSS file has been modified. This includes mirroring for right-to-left support.

Working With Other UI5 Projects

When working on UI5 applications or libraries that already make use of the @openui5-npm packages like the OpenUI5 Sample App, you can link your local OpenUI5 repository into that project. This allows you to make changes to the project itself as well as to the OpenUI5 libraries simultaneously and test them immediately.

A detailed step-by-step guide on how to achieve such a setup with the OpenUI5 sample app can be found here.

Building UI5

The UI5 Build and Development Tooling is used to build a production-ready version of OpenUI5. Every library needs to be built individually.

Usage:

ui5 build

The build is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Creation of the bundled library.css and library-RTL.css file for all available themes
  • Minification of CSS
  • Minification of JavaScript
  • Bundling the JavaScript modules of the libraries into a single library-preload.js file
  • Bundling of the most important UI5 Core modules into sap-ui-core.js

Troubleshooting

If you encounter errors like the one below, execute yarn in the OpenUI5 root directory. There may be new build tools required which need to be downloaded first.

Error: Cannot find module 'xyz'

Testing UI5

Running the Static Code Checks (ESLint)

All UI5 code must conform to a certain ruleset which is checked with ESLint (http://eslint.org/).
To run an ESLint check, navigate to the root directory of the repository and execute:

npm run lint

Running Tests

Convenient, automated test execution is not yet possible with the UI5 Build and Development Tooling.
Please refer to the legacy Grunt development environment documentation.