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Ambari Web Frontend Development Environment

Application Assembler: Brunch

We use Brunch as the client-side application assembler: http://brunch.io

• Brunch was used to create the application skeleton for Ambari Web.
• Brunch builds and deploys code automatically in the background as you modify the source files. This lets you break up the application into a number of JS files for code organization and reuse without worrying about development turnaround or runtime load performance.
• Run a Node.js-based web server with a single command so that you can easily run the application from the application root directory without any special configurationAmbari Web without setting up Ambari Server (you still need to run Ambari Server for true end-to-end testing).

To check out Ambari Web from the Github repository and run it:

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The above runs Ambari Web with a local test server at localhost:3333. The login/password is admin/admin

All Ambari front-end developers are highly recommended to use PhpStorm by JetBrains. JetBrains has kindly granted Apache Ambari an open-source license for PhpStorm and IntelliJ.  These products are available to Ambari committers (if you also need to do Java development - IntelliJ is a superset of PhpStorm, but PhpStorm is lighter so it is recommended if you are not modifying Java code).  You are an Ambari committer, email private@ambari.apache.org to request license keys). You can also use Eclipse if that is your preference. 

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