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Big FT

Development

Prerequisites

• NodeJS -- The runtime the application requires
• Heroku Toolbelt -- Used for interacting with the production/testing instances
• Java Development Kit -- Used for testing.
• Install Origami build tools

Setting up development environment

• Clone the repository -- git clone git@github.com:ftlabs/big-ft.git
• Change in repository directory -- cd big-ft
• Install the dependencies -- npm install
• Build the files used by the web client -- npm run build
• Spin up the web server -- npm start
• Open the website in your browser of choice -- open "localhost:3000" -- it will default to port 3000

Day-to-Day Development

When developing you may want to have the server restart and client files rebuilt on any code changes. This can be done with the develop npm script -- npm run develop.

Testing

Selenium is used for integration testing. In order to get Selenium running you will need to install the Java Development Kit.

Updating Code-Climate

• Install Code-Climate's Test Reporter -- npm install -g codeclimate-test-reporter
• Run the tests for the project -- gulp test
• Upload the coverage file to Code-Climate -- CODECLIMATE_REPO_TOKEN=[your token] codeclimate-test-reporter < coverage/lcov.info

Usage

To experience the big view glory:

• http://big.ft.com

To display a specific timezone:

• http://big.ft.com/?timezone=Europe/London

To display the US home page:

• http://big.ft.com/?edition=US

To include recent articles about a specific organisation whih may not ordinarily make it to the front page

• http://big.ft.com/?organisation=amazon

To configure the big view glory to display articles about Amazon:

• http://big.ft.com/?primaryType=search&primarySearch=amazon

To configure the big view glory to display only the first top-story in the primary section:

• http://big.ft.com/?primaryType=topStories&primaryMax=1

To customise everything in the big view glory which is customisable:

• http://big.ft.com/?primaryType=search&primarySearch=amazon&primaryOffset=0&primaryMax=1&secondaryType=search&secondarySearch=banks&secondaryOffset=0&secondaryMax=3

To switch to the simplistic black and white version

• http://big.ft.com?monotone=true

Vanity URLs

For our partners, we can display a vanity URL in the corner of Big FT. To display the vanity url, pass the partners name (as listed here ) a query parameter to the Big FT service. For example http://big.ft.com/?partner=labs will display the URL labs.ft.com in the bottom right corner. If the value passed does not relate to one of our partners, www.ft.com will display instead.