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Angular on SCP with WebIDE

korayyersel — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:49:48 GMT

Dear Experts,

Our customer wants to use Angular JS for their applications on SAP Cloud Platform. They are using gulp to build the projects. I could successfully deploy one of their projects in SCP following these steps:

1. Angular JS development locally (Sublime for example). For webservice endpoints using SAP Cloud Platform Destinations.

2. Creating a WebIDE UI5 project. Configuring a neo-app.json as if it's a normal UI5 application.

3. Running gulp build for the local Angular project

4. Copying gulp build results under WebIDE webapp folder

5. Deploying WebIDE project

With these steps I could deploy the project successfully and even call webservices using SCP destinations and the User API. As you can see in the steps it is a bit time consuming for the developers to run the gulp build locally and copy the results every time in WebIDE. So I am asking myself how to optimize this process.

- Can I deploy an HTML5 application without using WebIDE?

- Can I run gulp on WebIDE somehow?

Happy to hear your opinions and suggestions.

PS: I have tried to run the whole thing in Eclipse and deploy as a Java Application. But calling UserAPI and using destinations were not possible.

Regards,

Koray

Re: Angular on SCP with WebIDE

SergioG_TX — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:46:25 GMT

you can use HANA studio / eclipse with the right plug ins to connect to your SCP (or trial) account

I am not sure if gulp runs on the webide, I have use it on my desktop and then go from there. I explained something similar here

https://blogs.sap.com/2017/01/09/7-tips-for-your-sapui5-mobile-app/

Re: Angular on SCP with WebIDE

korayyersel — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:57:50 GMT

Hi Sergio Thanks for your answer. With Eclipse I can only deploy Java applications as far as I see. HTML5 applications can be deployed only with WebIDE. But when I deploy the whole thing as Java application (as mentioned in my post) destinations and API calls are not working. I have used Spring Boot as a container while trying to deploy it as a java application.

Re: Angular on SCP with WebIDE

SergioG_TX — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:04:32 GMT

here are the plug ins for eclipse

https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#sapui5

Re: Angular on SCP with WebIDE

Sharathmg — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:06:23 GMT

Hi Koray,

Check the new version of Web IDE - Multi-cloud version of Web IDE. It supports Gruntt build and many more options.

Regarding Angular JS, there is a tutorial already by SAP on building it. If you have not looked at it earlier, the link is pasted below:

https://www.sap.com/india/developer/tutorials/angular-getting-started.html