Building Known
Known will run out of the box, and doesn't necessarily need to be "built" first. However, as a developer, you will sometimes need to perform certain steps in order for your changes (e.g. javascript / css) to be reflected.
Building javascript
To simplify deployment of JS and CSS, Known makes use of Grunt.
A Gruntfile is provided which will perform minification of js and css for you, as well as execute other useful tasks.
To get going, install grunt, and the other developer dependencies:
npm install
You may also need to run npm rebuild node-sass if you see errors.
Testing your changes
If you've made JS or CSS changes, you can check your code using npm run grunt -- test to run linting, etc
Minify your changes
To get your javascript or css changes to be used by Known, you'll need to build minified versions of them. Do this by running the default grunt task by typing npm run grunt
Building SASS/CSS
Known now uses SCSS to define the main style sheets, and as such you will need to build a new minified stylesheet using the same npm run grunt build task.
The stylelint grunt task will report errors. Many of these can be fixed automatically by running node-modules/.bin/stylelint --fix on the changed files.
Watching for changes
If you're doing a lot of editing, you're probably going to forget to refresh your changes. Start your development session by running npm run grunt -- watch to look for changes in your javascript and SCSS files, and to automatically build your changes!
Building languages
See Languages for more detail, but in short npm run grunt -- build-lang
Vagrant
As a developer, you may find it helpful to set up a virtual machine to see your code running. A Vagrant configuration for Known can be found on Github.