Re: How develop pure JS library involving multiple source files?

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kentilton@gmail.com writes:

> I am interested in porting a little dataflow aka reactive aka
> databinding library of mine from Common Lisp to javascript. It will be
> about 2kloc and would be edited most easily as about ten different .js
> files.
>
> My immediate problem is quite simple: how do I edit/run/test as I go?
> Is it necessary to run a server and test in a browser where each file
> is loaded via a script tag?

No, because:

> I do not plan immediately to mess with DOM

and that means you only need an ECMAScript implementation with some IO
capability.  As a Linux user I use nodejs, but you name some things
below that I've not heard of so I think you many be using Windows.

> since it is purely about the dataflow between JS objects, so it would
> be great to just sit in an IDE and hit Run to test as I go.
>
> I have installed WebStorm and it works fine for a single source file,
> but for the life of me I do not see how to get it to load all the JS
> files I have added to the project. And I did see something suggesting
> I would have to use a build tool to concatenate the different JS
> files, suggesting WebStorm does not handle that for me.

That would be a very severe restriction (and a strange one, too), but
I'm not familiar with the software.  Some people with Windows experience
will be along soon and they can weigh in with how they do this sort of
development.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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How develop pure JS library involving multiple source files? kentilton@gmail.com - 2016-08-28 23:02 -0700
  Re: How develop pure JS library involving multiple source files? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-29 10:44 +0100
    Re: How develop pure JS library involving multiple source files? Ken Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 04:19 -0700
      Re: How develop pure JS library involving multiple source files? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-29 12:58 +0100

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