Blend

Blend is a foundation for client applications. It's platform agnostic at its core, currently with focus on web User Interfaces.

Blend follows and promotes a component oriented architecture across the entire application stack, from API integration to UI widgets. It's made up of 15 modules that cover almost everything a modern client application needs.

Blend is heavily object-oriented, but instead of relying on the language's built-in OOP features, classes are based on Blend's very own mixin-only OOP. (Hence the name.) In this paradigm, conflicting properties and methods coming from multiple mixins are resolved by superposition rather than override. This makes building classes very simple, as well as their behavior predictable.

Blend is event-based. The event mechanism decouples components and permeates all higher-level modules, serving as the nervous system of the application.

Getting started

Setup

Your app will be the extension of Blend.

1. Fork and clone the repo (https://github.com/Protoboard/blend or https://bitbucket.org/protoboard/blend)
2. npm install
3. Start adding your modules.

Modules

• grunt add-module NOT IMPLEMENTED

Build

• grunt build-full builds, runs tests, generates documentation
• grunt build-quick builds

Build artifacts will be placed under each module's "lib" folder as well as in "public".

### Tests

• grunt test lints, generates coverage, and module-by-module tests
• grunt jshint lints only
• grunt karma:coverage generates coverage only

Coverage will be placed in folder "doc/coverage".

### API Documentation

• grunt doc generates API documentation

Documentation will be placed in folder "doc/api".