The tenside UI depend on some third-party assets, precompilers, and so on. All dependencies are installed locally, expect the node package manager npm which must be installed on your system.

Hint Many distributions come with very old node/npm packages, we recommend to use the NodeSource binary distributions (formerly Chris Lea's Launchpad PPA). Support for this repository, along with its scripts, can be found on GitHub at nodesource/distributions.

We have bundled the doc/node_setup_dev shell script which will setup the repository on Debian/Ubuntu for you.

When npm is ready, you can install the needed packages.

# first install all node packages
npm install --save-dev

# now install third-party assets
./node_modules/.bin/gulp install

Hint If you have installed gulp globally, you can simply run gulp install.

To build the production ready distribution, run ./node_modules/.bin/gulp build.

For development you may simply run ./node_modules/.bin/gulp, which will watch on all assets and live rebuild them on change. The gulpfile comes with a livereload configuration, we recommend to install the chrome live reload add-on for the live reload capability.