Usage as an npm Dependency

Import ActiveUI SDK as a dependency

These are the different ways to declare a dependency on ActiveUI SDK in your package.json.

1) Local tgz File

This is the easiest and quickest way and it is how the ActiveUI Application is set up by default.

In your package.json, providing activeui-sdk-4.3.6.tgz is located in the same folder, add the following line to your dependencies:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "...": "...",
    "@activeviam/activeui-sdk": "file:./activeui-sdk-4.3.6.tgz",
    "...": "..."
  }
}

You can of course adapt the relative path if your tgz file is located in a different folder.

The ActiveUI SDK tgz is a large binary file. We recommend to always "gitignore" it. Continue reading for better ways to depend on ActiveUI SDK.

2) Maven Integration

If you version your ActiveUI application in the same repository as your ActivePivot server, you can piggyback on your existing Maven build and pom.xml file to depend on ActiveUI SDK.

This is what the activeui-sdk-4.3.6.jar file is made for.

Compared to the local tgz file approach, your package.json would contain:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "...": "...",
-    "@activeviam/activeui-sdk": "file:./activeui-sdk-4.3.6.tgz",
+    "@activeviam/activeui-sdk": "file:./target/dependency/META-INF/resources/activeviam/activeui-sdk",
    "...": "..."
  }
}

Refer to the Maven Integration page for more information on this.

3) Private npm Registry

ActiveUI SDK is a commercial library and so is not available on the public npm registry. However, you can use a private npm registry to depend on ActiveUI SDK as you would do with any other open source npm package.

This is the cleanest way to depend on ActiveUI SDK.

Private npm Registry Solutions

Here is a list of existing solutions offering a private npm registry that can be used:

Using a Private npm Registry

Once you have access to a private npm registry with ActiveUI SDK published on it, apply the following change to your package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "...": "...",
-    "@activeviam/activeui-sdk": "file:./activeui-sdk-4.3.6.tgz",
+    "@activeviam/activeui-sdk": "4.3.6",
    "...": "..."
  }
}

Build your project with ActiveUI SDK as a dependency

ActiveUI SDK peer dependencies

Make sure you declare the following packages as a dependencies of your project: react, react-dom

Bundler configuration

Moment.js is a dependencies of ActiveUI SDK and bundles large locale files by default due to how bundlers like Webpack interprets its code. To prevent useless locales to be bundled in the code base, it is recommended to configure the bundler to ignore all locales from Moment.js and to opt into importing specific locales in your project directly.

Example with Webpack, add the following plugin:

new webpack.IgnorePlugin(/^\.\/locale$/, /moment$/);

If you are using Create React App, this is done out of the box for you.

You will then have to opt in for specific locales you need.

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