Launcher

Wraps all apps in a UI frame with a common launchpad, menu and a search bar.

A launcher is an app that gives a common UI feeling to multiple apps running simultaneously.

What it does specifically:

• create a new session
• initialize a Puppet connnection
• load a global stylesheet
• provide features to switch between apps
• includes starcounter-debug-aid for debugging.

This repository contains the code for the default launcher provided by Starcounter. Not impressed? Please fork it and create one that show us how it should be done!

To read more about launchers in general, please see the Launcher page over on starcounter.io.

This development version works with Starcounter version: 2.2.1.3133

Past versions that work with Starcounter stable: RELEASES.md

How to run

1. Check out StarcounterSamples/Launcher repo from GitHub
2. Open Launcher.proj in Visual Studio
3. Build the solution
4. Run it by launching run.bat in Windows, or executing cmd //c "run.bat" in Git Bash, or using Debug in Visual Studio
5. Go to http://localhost:8080/

This will bring you an empty Launcher (with Launchpad, Dashboard and Search field). You need to repeat the above steps to run the actual apps (available in StarcounterSamples and StarcounterPrefabs organisations). You can bulk multiple app projects into a single Visual Studio solution.

How to test

1. Install Node.js
2. Run npm install to install the test framework
3. Start Launcher on http://localhost:8080/
4. Run npm test

How to release a package

1. Install Node.js.
2. Run npm install to install all dependencies.
3. Run grunt package to generate a packaged version. You can use grunt package:minor, grunt package:major, grunt package --setversion=1.0.0-develop.0, etc. as grunt-bump does.
4. Publish dist/<AppName>.zip package to the App Store.
5. Run git push && git push --tags to push the changes made by grunt package.

License

MIT