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Getting started

You need to have yarn installed. If you don’t, please check the official documentation and follow the instructions to install it on your system.

Then you can install the dependencies:

$ yarn

Develop:

$ yarn watch

And build:

$ yarn build

Please note that for the project to work, you will need to have a working cozy-stack. See how to run a cozy application for more information.

When watching, you still need to have a cozy-stack running to serve the files of the app (do not use the webpack-dev-server directly). This is important as the stack injects through template variables the token and domain used to connect to the cozy.

⚠️ CSPs must be disabled when working with the development server (as the index.html is served via the stack but the JS assets are served via webpack-dev-server). You can do this via a browser extension (Chrome) or you can tell the stack to disable CSPs via its config file (disable_csp: true, check here for more info on the config file). See an example config file here.

Fixtures

While developing, it is convenient to be able to inject and remove arbitraty data on your local instance.

We have a set of fake banking data in the test/fixtures/demo.json file that you can inject in your instance using the yarn fixtures command.

If you want to inject other data or remove some data, you can use ACH.

Develop on mobile

Get a working Android environment

To be able to build the app for Android, you can follow this guide (in french for now, will be translated soon, don’t hesitate to open a pull request).

Build and run the mobile app

To build the mobile app, you first have to run one of the following commands:

# One-shot build
$ yarn build:mobile
# To develop
$ yarn watch:mobile

Then you can run the app on the desired platform. For Android:

# Run on a real device
$ yarn android:run
# Run on an emulator
$ yarn android:run:emulator

For iOS:

# Run on a real device
$ yarn ios:run
# Run on an emulator
$ yarn ios:run:emulator

Hot reload on mobile app

# Replace the host with your own host (find it with ifconfig)
$ env DEV_SERVER_HOST=192.168.1.36 yarn build:mobile:hot
$ yarn ios:run # at this point the app is blank since it cannot access the files from your host
$ env DEV_SERVER_HOST=192.168.1.36 yarn watch:mobile:hot # launch a webpack-dev-server

⚠️⚠️⚠️ If you watch a production build, you must edit the webpack config to have the filepath without the [hash] otherwise you will not hit the right JS file.

⚠️ You need to have the final / at the end of the PUBLIC_PATH, otherwise some some CSS resources like fonts will not load

Release

A release consists in publishing the app on all platforms: web (via the Cozy Registry), Android (via the Google Play Store, APKs are also linked to Github releases) and iOS (via the App Store).

Start a release branch

When starting a release, start the checklist PR with :

yarn release

This will ask for the next version number and create a release branch with it. If you have Hub installed (recommended), it will also create the related pull request for you.

Workflow

When a release branch is created, features are frozen and the branch should only receive bugfixes.

To create beta versions, you have to do two thinkgs:

  • Bump the different version codes in src/targets/mobile/config.xml file (see below for more detailsandroid-versionCode, ios-CFBundleVersion, version and AppendUserAgent)
  • Commit it and create a tag with the X.Y.Z-beta.M scheme (for example 1.5.0-beta.1) and push them

The web app beta version will be automatically built and published on the cozy registry. An APK for Android will also be automatically created. For iOS, you have to build the app and upload it on Testflight.

Mobile apps version codes

In the src/targets/mobile/config.xml file, you have to update multiple version codes:

  • version: the generic version code
  • ios-CFBundleVersion: the version code specific to iOS
  • android-versionCode: the version code specific to Android
  • AppendUserAgent: a version code that is appended to the user agent string so we can know which version is related to messages in error logs

Each version code is not built in the same way:

  • version is the same as version in the package.json
  • ios-CFBundleVersion is the same as version, but with a fourth number representing the beta version number (for example 1.5.0.1 for 1.5.0-beta.1)
  • For android-versionCode, follow the following formula: beta + patch*100 + minor * 10000 + major * 1000000. For example, 1.5.1-beta.1 gives us 1050101
  • AppendUserAgent is the same as version

Publish manually on the Cozy registry

To publish manually on the Cozy registry, you need a token also stored in Cozy internal password store:

export REGISTRY_TOKEN=`pass registry/spaces/banks/banks.token`

After, you can use cozy-app-publish to push the app to the registry.

More information : https://github.com/cozy/cozy-stack/blob/master/docs/registry-publish.md

Publish to mobile stores

Pre-requisites

  • Install cordova globally (necessary for the fastlane cordova plugin)
yarn global add cordova@<same version as in package.json>
  • Generate icons
yarn mobile:icon

On iOS, if the given splashscreens are not to the resoution of the device, iOS falls back to compatibility mode and adds blacks bars to the top/bottom of the screen. This is particularly disgraceful on the iPhoneX which has an unusual screen shape.

To fix this, we use a single splashscreen file and set XCode for it to use Cordova’s launch screen functionality.

CozyBanks > Resources > Images.xcassets > LaunchStoryBoard > App icons and Launch images > LaunchScreenFile "CDVLaunchScreen"

  • Install Ruby, Bundler and project dependencies

See Ruby installation page to get the installation method for your system.

Install Bundler :

gem install bundler

Then install the project dependencies :

cd <path_to_project_root>/src/targets/mobile
bundler
  • Manage iOS native libraries
sudo gem install cocoapods
pod setup
yarn ios:install_pods # Install pods according to the Podfile.lock

You must also have the keys/ folder available from the internal password store.

Fastlane

Fastlane is used to manage automatically the deployment process. Its configuration is localed insrc/targets/mobile/fastlane/Fastfile.

iOS

Signing

⚠️ You need to have your device registered to iTunes Connect. If you have trouble deploying your app on your device, check that the Build settings in XCode are correct :

While developing, in XCode, in the “Signing” section :

  • Check “Manage automatically”
  • Team “Cozy Cloud”
  • Signing certificate : use a personal certificate belonging to the Cozy team (can be created when you have no matching certificate in the menu > Add an account).

When deploying, Fastlane manages the certificate and may change it.

Push iOS build

To push an iOS build on Testflight, use the following command :

yarn run ios:publish

To fully publish the app, go to iTunes Connect using the credentials in the password store and “submit for review”.

Android

Two keys will be asked during publishing, they are available in the password store in Gangsters/cozy-banks/keys/android :

  • 1: jks-pass.gpg
  • 2: cozy-banks-key-pass.gpg

You will also have to have apksigner in your PATH. It is located in the Android SDK folder.

export PATH $PATH:$HOME/.android/sdk/tools
export PATH $PATH:$HOME/.android/sdk/build-tools/26.0.2

When publishing a new version on the Play Store, you can use :

yarn run android:publish

This will upload create a new version in the store, in the beta track that you can review visually on the Play Store and then promote to the normal track.

Notifications

How to develop on templates

With the TEST_TEMPLATES environment variable, an express server serving the HTML emails will be built.

$ env TEST_TEMPLATES=true yarn watch:services
$ node build/testTemplates.js
Rendering emails at http://localhost:8081!

You can open your browser to check the emails. The Preview feature in Mailchimp is also useful to check that everything is correctly rendered on the various email clients (just copy/paste the content of the page).

Under the covers

The templates are Handlebars templates using the mjml language. mjml greatly reduces the pains to develop an email template as it deals with a lot of quirks for you. It features ready-made components to make responsive email templates. Behind the scene, it uses React to implement custom components, and juice to inline the CSS into the HTML. The handlebars-layouts plugin is used to provide an easy way to extend a base template (à la jinja)

Other templates :

nodemon --exec "node transactions-notification.js" -e js,css,hbs,json

Assets

Assets in assets/ are uploaded to https://downcloud.cozycloud.cc on every deployment on CI. It can also be done manually with the yarn uploadStaticFiles script.

Debug notification triggers

To debug notifications, you have to launch a watch on the notifications.js and then launch it with cozy-run-dev.

⚠️ You have to temporarily add io.cozy.accounts to your manifest so that you can create a dev account to test the service.

       "type": "io.cozy.notifications",
       "verbs": ["POST"]
     },
+    "account": {
+      "description": "Used to send notifications",
+      "type": "io.cozy.accounts",
+      "verbs": ["POST"]
+    },
     "bank.settings": {
       "description": "Used to manage your bank settings",
       "type": "io.cozy.bank.settings",

$ yarn watch:services # will continuously build `build/notifications.js`
$ nodemon --delay 1 -w build/notifications.js --exec "cozy-konnector-dev -t /tmp/token.json -m manifest.webapp build/notifications.js" # will launch build/notifications.js (and relaunch it when it changes) with the right COZY_CREDENTIALS, /tmp/token.json is where the token will be stored

To see the emails that the stack sends, launch a MailHog instance :

docker run -p 1025:1025 -p 8025:8025 mailhog/mailhog

The stack will send the emails through the SMTP port of MailHog and you will be able to see the mails in its web interface on http://localhost:8025.

https://github.com/cozy/cozy-banks/tree/master/src/ducks/notifications/html

When creating a notification

If you want to test the notifications in a workflow that is very close to the real one, you can import some fixtures to trigger the service execution. For that, you must open the test/fixtures/operations-notifs.json file and edit the following :

  • the _id field of the documents, so they are unique and will create a new document
  • the account field of the io.cozy.bank.operations documents to match an account id that exist on the instance you will import the fixtures to
  • the dates and the labels to be able to see the imported documents easily

Then you can use ACH to import the fixtures :

ACH import test/fixtures/operations-notifs.json test/fixtures/helpers.js --url <instance_url>

Misc

🖼 The PNG icons that are included in the emails are generated manually from the SVG via scripts/icons-to-png.sh and uploaded automatically to files.cozycloud.cc via Jenkins (which follows the file files.cozycloud.cc at the root of the repo).

Pouch On Web

If you want activate Pouch on web app, you need: - a token - launch your build with FORCE_POUCH

cozy-stack instances token-cli cozy.tools:8080 $(cat manifest.webapp | jq -r '[.permissions[] | .type] | join(" ")')
env FORCE_POUCH=true yarn watch

Launch your web application and in console javascript fill in the token and refresh the page:

flag('cozyToken', <your token>)

Now you can play with replication:

cozyClient.links[0].startReplication()
cozyClient.links[0].stopReplication()

Important credentials

All important credentials are stored in Cozy internal password store. To import it execute ./scripts/import_mobile_keys