Development

To work on a subcomponent that is copied into node_modules, you can use sm edit. For instance, to work on ACE, run the following from the checkout root:

sm edit ace

This is somewhat equivalent to npm link but instead of linking to a system wide shared package it clones the source into the node_modules/ directory. The idea is to only "edit" when you need to make changes and when done issue "sm save " (not yet implemented) which will pull up sourcetree to commit, push code and switch package back to read mode (frozen). The status page

sm status

shows problematic and improvement oriented action steps to improve the state of the program. These relate to git status and dependency changes that need to be made to bring the dependencies up to date and ready to publish which leads to deployment.

The line on the status page will have a (W) if it is setup for editing.

To launch Sourcetree for all dirty/ahead repositories in the dependency tree use (need to have Sourcetree command-line tools installed (stree)):

sm fix

The sourcemint package manager works alongside NPM so to link in a (system-wide shared) NPM package use:

rm -R node_modules/architect
npm link architect

sm always works on your program sub-tree other than pulling things in from the cache.

To view help info for cloud9 use:

sm help

To view usage info for sm use:

sm -h