juxtapose

Video Juxtaposition Tool

Development Notes

Juxtapose is meant to be used in the Mediathread environment, because it relies on things specific to Mediathread, like the CollectionList. Here I'll outline some logistics around developing this tool in Mediathread.

I'm developing Juxtapose in this git repository because it's easier to make changes here. Mediathread has an elaborate testing setup of its own that we don't need to go through when making changes to Juxtapose.

Juxtapose interacts with Mediathread through a few JavaScript functions and some AJAX calls. Juxtapose's core interface functionality is independent of Mediathread, so a lot of it can be developed and tested separately.

It's still essential to do manual testing within Mediathread, and here's how I'm doing that:

• cd mediathread
• rm media/juxtapose/bundle.js
• ln -s ~/public_html/juxtapose/build/bundle.js media/juxtapose/bundle.js
• make runserver

Then, in a new terminal:

• cd ~/public_html/juxtapose
• make dev

Now you can make changes in the Juxtapose repository, and the build will be updated when you access the tool in Mediathread.

Deployment

Here's how I'm currently pushing this code to Mediathread:

• Run make build
• Copy build/bundle.js to mediathread/media/juxtapose
• Commit the compiled code to Mediathread

I'm planning on figuring out how to bundle this with npm, so this process might improve in the future.