You will obviously start by forking the ol-ext repository.
Go in the project directory and run the npm install
that wil install the dependencies in the local node_modules folder.
Since v.2 the extensions are provided as ES6 modules. To be used in a web page you have to create the distribution.
Use the gulp command to create a distribution of the project into the /dist
directory:
gulp
If you don't want to use the whole distribution in a web page, you can create individual js compatible with your browser.
Use the gulp lib
command to create individual files into the /lib
directory then link tpo this files:
gulp lib
To help creating and testing the examples when developping you can use the watch
or serve
task.
To recreate the distribution on the fly when js
files change, use the watch
task:
gulp watch
You can use the serve
task to start a live server:
gulp serve
See the result in your browser at http://localhost:8181
.
The dist
will be recreated on each changes and the page will reload on the browser.
To ensure the correct translation beetween the modules and the distribution on ol classes:
- Export one class per file as default
- Use the naming convention
To ensure the correct translation beetween the modules and the distribution on ol classes, we use the following naming convention.
In Openlayers classes just replace the point
by a underscore
.
- Thus the
ol.layer.Vector
class must be imported asol_layer_Vector
. - A new control
ol.control.MyControl
must be declared asol_control_MyControl
The file name must reflect the name of the extension and should be placed in the src directory corresponding to its namespace.
Thus ol_control_MyControl
must be created in the ./src/control/MyControl.js
file and can be used in a webpack as:
import ol_control_MyControl from 'ol-ext/control/MyControl';
Example:
// Import ol classes
import {inherits as ol_inherits} from 'ol'
import ol_control_Control from 'ol/control/Control'
// Create my control
var ol_control_MyControl = function(options) {
ol_control_Control.call(this,options);
}
ol_inherits(ol_control_MyControl, ol_control_Control);
// Export my control
export default ol_control_MyControl
The project use eslint to lint the code, just type in a console:
npm run lint
The documentation use gulp-jsdoc3 to create the doc.
- install the gulp-jsdoc3 project at the root directory:
npm install gulp-jsdoc3
- then run the gulp command to create the doc in the doc/doc-pages directory:
gulp doc