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# Cockpit Starter Kit
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Scaffolding for a [Cockpit](http://www.cockpit-project.org) module.
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# Getting and building the source
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Make sure you have `npm` available (usually from your distribution package).
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These commands check out the source and build it into the `dist/` directory:
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```
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git clone https://github.com/cockpit-project/starter-kit.git
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cd starter-kit
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make
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```
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# Installing
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`make install` compiles and installs the package in `/usr/share/cockpit/`. The
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convenience targets `srpm` and `rpm` build the source and binary rpms,
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respectively. Both of these make use of the `dist-gzip` target, which is used
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to generate the distribution tarball. In `production` mode, source files are
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automatically minified and compressed. Set `NODE_ENV=production` if you want to
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duplicate this behavior.
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For development, you usually want to run your module straight out of the git
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tree. To do that, link that to the location were `cockpit-bridge` looks for packages:
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```
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mkdir -p ~/.local/share/cockpit
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ln -s `pwd`/dist ~/.local/share/cockpit/starter-kit
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```
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After changing the code and running `make` again, reload the Cockpit page in
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your browser.
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# Automated Testing
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Run `make check` to build an RPM, install it into a standard Cockpit test VM
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(centos-7 by default), and run the test/check-application integration test on
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it. This uses Cockpit's Chrome DevTools Protocol based browser tests, through a
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Python API abstraction. Note that this API is not guaranteed to be stable, so
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if you run into failures and don't want to adjust tests, consider checking out
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Cockpit's test/common from a tag instead of master (see the `test/common`
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target in `Makefile`).
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After the test VM is prepared, you can manually run the test without rebuilding
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the VM, possibly with extra options for tracing and halting on test failures
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(for interactive debugging):
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TEST_OS=centos-7 test/check-application -tvs
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You can also run the test against a different Cockpit image, for example:
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TEST_OS=fedora-28 make check
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# Vagrant
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This directory contains a Vagrantfile that installs and starts cockpit on a
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Fedora 26 cloud image. Run `vagrant up` to start it and `vagrant rsync` to
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synchronize the `dist` directory to `/usr/local/share/cockit/starter-kit`. Use
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`vagrant rsync-auto` to automatically sync when contents of the `dist`
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directory change.
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# Customizing
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After cloning the Starter Kit you should rename the files, package names, and
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labels to your own project's name. Use these commands to find out what to
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change:
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find -iname '*starter*'
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git grep -i starter
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# Further reading
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* The [Starter Kit announcement](http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-starter-kit.html)
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blog post explains the rationale for this project.
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* [Cockpit Deployment and Developer documentation](http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/)
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* [Make your project easily discoverable](http://cockpit-project.org/blog/making-a-cockpit-application.html)
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