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Getting the Code

Bring on the code!

You can recursively clone and initialize all of toolkit’s submodules with a single git command.

To get the code, run:

git clone git://github.com/toolkitchen/toolkit.git --recursive

This creates a toolkit/ folder with the following top-level files and folders:

  • platform/ — Submodule which contains the platform shims and polyfills.
  • test/ — Test cases.
  • toolkit.js — The Toolkit kernel

You will also want the samples in tookit-ui. To check this repo, run: alongside your toolkit checkout:

git clone git://github.com/toolkitchen/toolkit-ui.git --recursive

More on repository structure is below.

Test your environment

To check that your development environment is ready, start a local web server and run one of the included sample projects:

  1. Start a local web server in the folder where you have toolkit/ and toolkit-ui checked out.
  2. In your browser, navigate to http://localhost/toolkit-ui/workbench/menu.html, or whichever port you started the server on. You should see a menu of items, as shown below.

About branches

See Branching Workflow.

Updating Toolkitchen submodules

Periodically, we will update the projects’ submodules on GitHub. To update your local copy’s submodules, run the following command from the the repository’s folder:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Repository structure

The entirety of the Toolkitchen is composed of a number of Git repositories. Most are included as submodules in the main toolkit repository. However, understanding the various pieces will help you navigate the codebase.

We have factored our repositories into atomic chunks, and then created integration repositories to bring them together again. For example, the following repositories may be useful individually:

  • CustomElements
  • HTMLImports
  • ShadowDOM
  • MDV
  • PointerGestures

Other repositories aggregate these individual repositories (as submodules) into useful combinations:

  • platform
  • toolkit
  • toolkit-ui

Polyfill repositories

Each new web platform feature has a corresponding polyfill repository. The reasoning for this is two-fold:

  1. make the polyfills work across all modern browsers
  2. each polyfill can stand on its own and be used à la carte in projects.

/platform repository

github.com/toolkitchen/platform

The platform repository references each of the polyfills as submodules, and contains integration tests, loader, and build tools for the amalgamated polyfills.

See Tooling Strategy for information.

/toolkit repository

github.com/toolkitchen/toolkit

The toolkit repository contains the guts of the project. It pulls in the platform polyfill repo as a submodule, contains tools, tests, and hosts the Toolkit kernel.

If you want to see the development activity, checkout the master branch directly:

git clone -b master https://github.com/toolkitchen/toolkit.git --recursive

Remember: If you don't specify master, you'll get the stable branch by default. See Branching Workflow for more info.

/toolkit-ui repository

github.com/toolkitchen/toolkit-ui

The toolkit-ui repository contains examples of the types of things you can do when writing a Toolkit components.

  • elements/ — g-* custom element definitions.
  • workbench/ — demos of using the Toolkit components in elements/.