Bower

Overview

Added this to attempt to standardize the assets that are used by openemr.

Assets that are collected via bower are stored at public/assets; note this location is flexible since we are not sure where we will be storing these in the future as migrate to MVC architecture.

• The path is set to a global ($GLOBALS['assets_static_relative']) here in the codebase(so the path will be easy to change in the future) and also would need to be changed in the .bowerrc file):

• https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/b63b0da6a5eae6f8051234bff104a06cb37db167
• (also see above commit for a example on using the global/path)

• Incorporating the versions in the paths of the libraries. Using "ignoredDependencies" in .bowerrc file to ignore sub-dependencies which makes things messy(would bring in paths without versions of which would be a redundant library).

ignoredDependencies setting in .bowerrc file.

• datatables
• jquery
• imagesloaded
• react

Current Assets

AnythingSlider-1-9-4 (pending Ray's optho form)

• Removed .gitignore and .gitattributes files.

Chart.js-2-1-3 (pending Ray's optho form)

• Removed .gitignore file.

font-awesome-4-6-3

• Removed .gitignore file.

jquery-ui-1-11-4 (pending Ray's optho form)

• Removed .gitignore file.

shortcut.js-2-01-B (pending Ray's optho form)

• Not supported by bower, so brought in manually to the manual-added-packages sub-directory.

undone.js-0-0-1 (pending Ray's optho form)

• Removed .gitignore and .gitattributes files.

Questions

Development is ongoing for this project:

• Ideal directory for this stuff (this is why we have made it flexible so can easily change this in the future)
• Ideal syntax of the bower openemr package
• Use this only for front-end libraries (css/js)?
• Use composer for back-end libraries? If so, use separate directory?

Forum

• assets directory