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Ben Gotow 1157fdc450 build(*): electron-compile, electron-packager instead of custom tooling

Summary:
This diff removes significant cruft from N1's compilation and build tooling:

- Electron-Packager replaces most of the code in build/tasks/* used to copy things,
bundle things, download electron, etc.

- script/bootstrap has been replaced with a much simpler script that does not use
APM, does not download Electron (we just use electron as an NPM dep) and does
not manully compile sqlite. It requires NPMv3, but I think that's safe.

- babel and eslint are now devDependencies of the main project. The main project
also supports optionalDependencies now.

- npm test and npm start replace ./N1.sh

- APM is still around, and is only put into N1 so it can install plugins at runtime.
It should be removed as soon as we notify package maintainers and have them provide zips.

- N1 no longer has it's own compile-cache or babel/typescript/coffeescript compilers.
It delegates to electron-compile and electron-compilers. Both of these packages had
to be forked and modified slightly, but I'm hopeful the modifications will make it back
in to the projects and you can still consult their documentation for more info.

+ In the near future, I think we should stop shipping electron-compilers with N1. This
would mean that all plugins would need to be compiled on pre-publish, just like NPM
packages, and would complicate the local development story a bit, but would make the
app smaller. electron-compile is not supposed to compile at runtime in the prod app,
just pull from the compile cache.

- I've re-organized Grunt according to Grunt best practices, where each tasks/* file
specifies it's own config and imports grunt tasks.

- Unfortunately, I was not able to use any open source projects for the deb and rpm builds,
because we have things like postinst hooks and start menu items which are not supported
by the electron installer-generators.

WIP

Turn off all LESS compilation, because themes. Doh.

Use Grunt for new build process too, just remove tasks

More changes

Add babel-eslint

Remove unused react-devtools

WIP

Add name

Ignore nonexistent

Switch to more modern approach to config for grunt

Move zipping to mac installer task

Restructure publish task so it aggregates first, can log useful info if publishing is disabled

Fix build dirs

Fix win installer

Fix linux installer

Try making linux

A few more

Updates

Upadtes

fixes

Get rid of non-meaningful variables

Resolve assets path

Insert nylas.sh

Clean up args more

Actually use description

Fix display name ugh

More tweaks

Expliclty write /usr/bin/nylas

Improve vars

Use old nylas.sh

Reinstate APM to better scope this diff

Test Plan: Test on Mac, Windows, Linux

Reviewers: evan, jackie, juan

Reviewed By: jackie, juan

Differential Revision: https://phab.nylas.com/D3411

2016-11-09 13:52:10 -08:00

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Filing an Issue

Thanks for checking out N1! If you have a feature request, be sure to check out the open source roadmap. If someone has already requested the feature you have in mind, you can upvote the card on Trello—to keep things organized, we often close feature requests on GitHub after creating Trello cards.

If you've found a bug, try searching for similars issue before filing a new one. Please include the version of N1 you're using, the platform you're using (Mac / Windows / Linux), and the type of email account. (Gmail, Outlook 365, etc.)

Contributing to N1

The hosted sync engine allows us to control adoption of N1 and maintain a great experience for our users. However, the sync engine is open source and you can set it up yourself to begin using N1 immediately. Follow instructions on the sync engine repository.

Getting Started

First, clone and build N1 from source:

git clone https://github.com/nylas/N1.git
cd N1
script/bootstrap

Read the getting started guides.

Building Nylas on Windows? See the Windows instructions.

Linux users on Debian 8 and Ubuntu 15.04 onward must also install libgcrypt11, which Electron depends on.

Running N1

npm start

Once the app boots, you'll be prompted to enter your email credentials.

Testing N1

npm test

This will run the full suite of automated unit tests. We use Jasmine 1.3.

It runs all tests inside of the /spec folder and all tests inside of /internal_packages/**/spec

You may skip certain tests (temporarily) with xit and xdescribe, or focus on only certain tests with fit and fdescribe.

Creating binaries

Once you've checked out N1 and run script/bootstrap, you can create a packaged version of the application by running script/build. Note that the builds available at https://nylas.com/N1 include licensed fonts, sounds, and other improvements. If you're just looking to run N1, you should download it there!

Pull requests

We require all authors sign our Contributor License Agreement before pull requests (even minor ones) can be accepted. (It's similar to other projects, like NodeJS Meteor, or React). I'm really sorry, but Legal made us do it.

Commit Format

We decided to not impose super strict commit guidelines on the community.

We're trusting you to be thoughtful, responsible, committers.

We do have a few heuristics:

Keep commits fairly isolated. Don't jam lots of different functionality in 1 squashed commit. git bisect and git cherry-pick should still be reasonable things to do.
Keep commits fairly significant. DO squash all those little file changes and "fixmes". Don't make it difficult to browse our history. Play the balance between this idea and the last point. If a commit doesn't deserve your time to write a long thoughtful message about, then squash it.
Be hyper-descriptive in your commit messages. I care less about what you did (I can read the code), I want to know WHY you did it. Put that in the commit body (not the subject). Itemize the major semantic changes that happened.
Read "How to Write a Git Commit Message" if you haven't already (but don't be too prescriptivist about it!)

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