Installation and Setup¶

Installation¶

Being this all about Python, it is practical to have a command line manager that can help in setting up, prototyping, resetting, packaging and doing some other tasks.

As it is canonical for Python applications, you can install the command line manager with:

pip install anpylar

which gives you access to a set commands like for example:

anpylar-serve <directory-to-serve>

This starts the AnPyLar web development server which allows you to test your application whilst developing.

You can actually invoke the same command as anpylar serve (notice there is no - in between), but we prefer the former because it works perfectly with shell completion.

Note

Under Unix-like operating systems, the scripts will be already in your path with a default Python installation. Under Windows your mileage may vary. Most distributions will ask you during installation if you want to have them in your PATH.

Of course, you may also choose to completely skip the command line application.

Setup¶

If you use the command line client you can simply do

anpylar-application myapp

This will create a directory named myapp which will contain an index.html file like this

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title></title>

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  <script src="anpylar.js" async></script>

</head>
<body></body>
</html>

Of course, the reference files styles.css and anpylar.js have also been deployed to the application directory.

For further info we recommend that you go to the Tutorial: Tour of Pyroes. It starts from scratch and shows the layout produced by the different tools.

Manual Setup¶

Be it because you don’t want to use the command line client or because you prefer to execute some steps manually, there is only 1 requirement to run your application: having the anpylar.js file loaded by your web page.

All that you need then is something like

<script src="path_to/anpylar.js" async></script>

In this case you will have downloaded the file manually.

or

<script src="http://example.com/anpylar.js" async></script>

True, you won’t be getting it from example.com, because the actual canonical links are:

Version specific: https://cdn.rawgit.com/anpylar/anpylar/VERSION/anpylar.js

Just replace VERSION with your version of choice, for example: 1.1.1

The aforementioned version contain no line number information. If you want to preserve that, use the _debug alternative:

Version specific: https://cdn.rawgit.com/anpylar/anpylar/VERSION/anpylar_debug.js

Just replace VERSION with your version of choice, for example: 1.1.1