Bower

Overview

Added this to attempt to standardize the assets that are used by openemr.

Plan

Assets that are collected via bower are stored at interface/static; note this location is flexible since we are not sure where we will be storing these in the future as migrate to MVC architecture.

• The path is set to a global ($GLOBALS['assets_static_relative']) here in the codebase(so the path will be easy to change in the future) and also would need to be changed in the .bowerrc file):

• https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/b63b0da6a5eae6f8051234bff104a06cb37db167
• (also see above commit for a example on using the global/path)

• Incorporating the versions in the paths of the libraries. Using "ignoredDependencies" in .bowerrc file to ignore sub-dependencies which makes things messy(would bring in paths without versions of which would be a redundant library).

Implementation

Current assets are:

• font-awesome-4-6-3 (commit is pending)
• literallycanvas-0-4-13 (commit is pending)

• Placed "react" as "ignoredDependencies" in .bowerrc file.

• react-15-1-0 (commit is pending)

Questions

Development is ongoing for this project:

• Ideal directory for this stuff (this is why we have made it flexible so can easily change this in the future)
• Ideal syntax of the bower openemr package
• Use this only for front-end libraries (css/js)?
• Use composer for back-end libraries? If so, use separate directory?
• Should we be using bower for this or is it better to manually bring in packages in a standard fashion? And for packages that are not offered via bower, should we add a manually-added directory for these?

Forum

• assets directory