bower dependency "sofa-q-service" doesn't work as expected

[knitzie]

Hi guys!

I'm currently building my customized app with the sofa SDK. When installing the sofa-checkout-service and all the dependencies with bower, at first everything is just fine. But in my index.html file an error occours. The sofa-q-service import got the wrong path:

<script src="bower_components/sofa-q-service/dist/sofa.core.js"></script>

At the moment I fix it manually and it works.

[nickjanssen]

Hi @knitzie! What index.html are you referring to? The one from https://github.com/sofa/app ?
Or, did you generate the index.html yourself? I double-checked the NPM and Bower components of sofa-q-service and sofa-checkout-service, but their paths appear intact to me. Could you elaborate and tell me how I can reproduce this issue?

[cburgdorf]

Hi @knitzie I can't add much to what Nick road except that we install all components via NPM so bower usage isn't battle tested. Apart from that it should work :)

However, a word of caution regarding the checkoutService. This service is full of quirky code that works around limitations of our legacy backend API. It's currently going through a complete rewrite and in the end it should be much easier to adapt it for custom backend APIs. I don't mean to scare you away from it's usage for now just wanted to raise awareness :)

Btw, pretty cool to see you building a custom app on top of sofa!

[cburgdorf]

As a follow up and totally off-topic, I noticed that you came up with angular wrappers for the bare sofa services here: https://github.com/knitzie/custom-sofa/blob/f3a85b271654f5b9e6b7b3454cfb5c564c98c0a7/app/scripts/factory.js

Thumbs up on figuring out those parts on your own especially as we still lack lots of documentation. I just wanted to let you know that we mean to provide such angular wrappers ourselves but they are hidden in sofa-base which at this point is a huge monolithic mess that we mean to slice into fine grained packages.

Example of the wrapped basketService:
https://github.com/couchcommerce/sofa-base/blob/master/src/services/BasketService.js

If you are interested in contributing such packages we would love to take your contributions. We have a sofa-component-seed that can be used to kick start new sofa component packages.

https://github.com/sofa/sofa-component-seed

Not trying to trick you into extra work but if you like to contribute to sofa that might be a good start :)

[knitzie]

First of all: Thanks for the answers and compliments ^^
As you've already seen I've uploaded my custom-sofa app, so you and all sofa beginners can take a look.

@nickjanssen Here's my index file: https://github.com/knitzie/custom-sofa/blob/master/app/index.html
As mentioned before, I started with a yeoman project and simply added the needed packages in my bower file.
In this case "sofa-core": "0.10.1" and "sofa-checkout-service": "0.6.0". I suppose that after prompt $ bower install all dependencies are installed automatically. The result seems to do what expected, but maybe I'm missing something?

@cburgdorf Good to know that it should work ;) And good to know about the current "in process" packages!
I'm not scared, I'm glad if I can help you. That's why I uploaded my project for other interested persons too - as a form of documentation or getting started.
I'll take a look at the component-seed :)