Lightship Bridge Plugin

Automates the sharing of configuration and bootstrap functionality between lightship-php and lightship-js.

Features

• Designed for a PHP back-end, with an HTML + JS front-end
• Uses the systemjs JS module loader
• Automatic generation of <script> elements to initialize JS environment and bootstrap
• Automatic import of the current module's Controller.js
• PHP API to forward information to JS, including:
  • environment vars
  • plugin registrations
  • model data (as part of the initial HTML output)
  • on-the-fly JS System depCache
• <script> elements are deferred, with a single small inline script for the stub
• Overridable methods for App level customization of behaviour
• Event dispatch for higher-level extension

Installation

This plugin requires systemjs version 0.20.x, and assumes that it is accessible via your web app at $deps/systemjs/systemjs. e.g. normally at file path $project/www/__/$deps/systemjs/systemjs.

1. Register the LightshipBridge plugin in your lightship-php app.

2. Create a file at $project/www/__/libs/js/browser.js. This file is used to set your SystemJS config settings. It should contain a call to System.config(), etc. See the example file to get the general idea.

3. Create a file at $project/www/__/libs/js/index.js. This is the JS entry point file, and is used to bootstrap your lightship-js app. See the example file to get the general idea.

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