Coderoom

About

Coderoom helps you build live presentation of your numerous html/css/js code snippets.

For instance, you have a project with specific GUI-guidelines, custom widgets, tricky workarounds, which you want to share with your team or customers. With coderoom you can easily gather these pieces into single resource. Also, thanks to coderoom, you can monitor how changes in project influence it's specific parts that you have allocated.

Demo

• UI Bootstrap Demo (set of AngularJS directives) (source)
• Bootstrap CSS (source)

Features

• works offline
• builds live examples that are easy to use and share
• uses folder structure to arrange things
• resource nesting (child "room" inherits configuration of it's parent)

Installation

npm install coderoom -g

Usage

To generate coderoom you have to prepare a folder with at least one html file. Then run a command:

coderoom source/ target/

If you use coderoom as a dependency:

const coderoom = require('coderoom');
coderoom.build('source/', 'target/');

Now target folder contains index.html. Open it in browser to see your built coderoom.

Grouping

You can group your snippets. To do that just place them in a separate folder inside of your source folder.

Ordering

Coderoom orders content alphanumerically, just like your operation system does to files and folders. It means, that if your source folder contains files: Question.html and Answer.html, first will be Answer.html and then Question.html.

To change this you can name files and folders, so they contain double-underscore __, like 1__Question.html and 2__Answer.html. Coderoom drops prefixes before __ from titles on a view, but they still can be used to arrange items in a way you want.

Resources

Of course, html worth nothing without css and javascript (also images, fonts, etc but it's not a point). To bring life into your snippets, add config.json file to your "room" folder with media property. media contains an array of glob patterns, like ['./myProject/css/*', './myProject/js/*'], that when resolved are included into presentation.

Also, config.json may contain assets property with file patterns, that are not included directly, but are copied along with media files. All files are copied to coderoom build with relatedness preservation. It means, that if your css file contains relative path, like background-image:url('../images/logo.png');, and you didn't forget to include images folder into assets, it is guaranteed to work.

File patterns are resolved relatively to current working directory.

Each group of snippets may contain own config.json. If parent folder has ['./foo.js'] configured as media, and child has ['./bar.js'], then child "room" will contain both foo.js and bar.js, while parent will contain only foo.js.

config.json

Name	Type	Description
title	string	Set "room's" title. By default folder name is used
media	array/string	Glob patterns of .css and .js files, that will be included into view
assets	array/string	Glob patterns of files that will not be included into view, but will be copied beside to media files

Example:

{
  "title": "My awesome project",
  "assets": [
    "./vendor/bootstrap-*/**/*"
  ],
  "media": [
    "./vendor/jquery-*.min.js",
    "./vendor/bootstrap-*/css/bootstrap.css*",
    "./vendor/bootstrap-*/js/bootstrap.js",
    "./css/foo.css"
  ]
}

Complex preview

If you want to include in preview more than just html, you have to create a folder with index.html in it. Place any css or javascript files into that folder, they will become a part of a "room", and you'll be able to switch between them on live presentation.

Automation

• grunt-coderoom