Developer Docs

Useful stuff our devs think that the rest of our devs ought to know about.

• Getting started
  • Recommended setup
  • Static vs. Dynamic version
  • Virtualenv
  • Running tests
• Front-End Code
  • Modularity
  • Building Frontend Code
  • Implementing with Backbone
  • Creating Your Own Backbone View
  • TL;DR (or 7 quick steps to creating a Backbone View in KA Lite)
• Javascript Unit Tests
  • Purpose
  • Setting up your Test Environment
  • Getting Your Javascript to be Testable in KA Lite
  • Writing a Test
  • Running Tests
• Behavior-Driven Integration Tests
  • Running the integration tests
    • Running a specific test
  • Anatomy of the integration tests
  • Suggested workflow for writing new features
  • Selenium gotchas (aka race conditions)
• Developer Utility Commands
  • Django Management Commands
  • generaterealdata
• Logging
• Inline help
  • Simple workflow
• Documentation
  • Documentation development
  • Screenshots
    • Usage of screenshot Sphinx directive
    • The thing about click
• Accessibility
  • Why
  • How
  • Using tota11y
  • What can you check with tota11y
• Translation
  • Creating new source translations
  • Legacy