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Mouchak |
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A Javascript framework for building single page websites or web apps. |
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It takes the content of the website as a JSON. The JSON file can contain |
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text or multimedia content(images, audio, video). |
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Mouchak can also load external JS/CSS files through the JSON. This gives the website to load |
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plugins to enhance/customize the website either through JS or CSS. |
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How to use it |
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Either download this codebase or git clone the repo. |
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Once you have downloaded or cloned the repo, load the index.html file in your browser. |
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This loads the example content from example.json. |
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Use the index.html file as the boilerplate file of your index.html file. |
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Modify the code in the script tag, which loads the example.json, and change |
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the URL to point to your JSON file. |
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Remember the JSON files is loaded in the client side. Hence your JSON file should |
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be from the same domain where this app is loaded. |
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See cross-domain policies for details. |
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The global object for this framework is exposed as the variable M. This can be |
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inspected in the console. |
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The M.filterTags() method takes an array of strings representing the tags to filter. |
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It returns an array of the content objects with the matched tags. |
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How it works |
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It takes the content of the site in the form of JSON. The JSON should describe the content |
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(in terms of type like text, audio or image) and also provide the content (in case of text |
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the content is as it is, in case images urls are given). The JSON should also describe the |
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content semantically by giving it tags. |
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More details about the JSON format in example.json file. |
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The framework provides an easy way to pull up related content by just specifying the tags. |
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Backbone models are used to model the content. Different content has different types. |
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Again all types are derived from one base type. |
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Each model has a corresponding view as well. The views manage how the content are rendered. |
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Each page is made of multiple content (content objects). |
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Pages are also modeled in Backbone models and their view is managed via Backbone views. |
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The framework also use Backbone router to handle client side routing. |
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What it uses |
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Mouchak uses HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap project as a boilerplate code for the website. |
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Mouchak also leverages powerful libraries like Backbone.js and Underscore.js to manage and render |
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content. This gives more flexibility to the content of the website. |
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The main code resides in js/mouchak.js. The HTML markup it uses is in index.html. |
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Javascript libary files are in js/lib. We use backbone.js, underscore.js and jquery in this |
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framework. |
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Boilerplate code/files: |
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404.html - error template |
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crossdomain.xml - cross-domain policies to be obeyed by the client |
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css/bootstrap.css - boilerplate css |
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css/normalize.css - boilerplate css |
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css/main.css - boilerplate css |
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humans.txt - write your own credits |
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img/ - directory for images |
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robots.txt - crawl spider rules |
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Support |
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Email to rayanon at janastu dot org / arvind at janastu dot org for any kind of feedback. |
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Issues |
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Report issues [here](http://bugzilla.pantoto.org/bugzilla3/describecomponents.cgi?product=Mouchak) |
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