TopCoat

An Open Source UI Library for creating beautiful and responsive applications using web standards

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Usage

• Download TopCoat

• Copy all the contents of the release folder to your desired project.

• Link the CSS into your page

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/topcoat-desktop-min.css">

*Alternatively incorporate the css into your build process if you are so inclined.

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Contributing

Start by checking out our Backlog. To see the prioritized list of items just click on the blue arrow on the left (a panel called Backlog should slide in).

*We use Huboard to keep our issues organized into a backlog.

• Fill out the CLA here
• fork the repo

• Create a branch

  git checkout -b my_branch

• Add your changes following the coding guidelines

• Commit your changes

  git commit -am "Added some awesome stuff"

• Push your branch

  git push origin my_branch

• make a pull request

For the details see our Engineering Practices.

Testing

For performance tests, see test/perf/telemetry/README.md.

Building

TopCoat uses Grunt to build

• Open the terminal from the topcoat directory

  cd topcoat

• Install npm *comes packaged with node.

• Install its command line interface (CLI) globally

  npm install -g grunt-cli

• Install dependencies with npm

  npm install

*Topcoat uses Grunt 0.4.0 you might want to read more on their website if you haven't upgraded since a lot has changed..

• Type grunt in the command line to build the css.
• The results will be built into the release folder.
• Alternatively type grunt watch to have the build run automatically when you make changes to source files.

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Release notes

See Release Notes on the wiki.

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License

Apache license