IxF
The Interaction Framework (IxF) is used to quickly build out web applications by having a good and consistent style, commonly used widgets and an easy way to implement those widgets right out of the box. This is an open source project on github.com so that the open web community can contribute and enhance this framework.
IxF is the first open source project for the LDS Church. Therefore, we hope that this pilot project will be successful and will blaze the trail for future open source projects at the LDS Church. The more people in the open web community we can get to contribute to the project, the more success we will have and the more likely other open source projects will be initiated.
If you or anyone you know in the open web development community would like to get involved and help improve IxF, take a look at the official website and the Github repository.
If you are unfamiliar with git, Github, forking a repo, or doing a pull request, this would be a great opportunity to learn!
Ways to Contribute
- Usability Testing
- Unit Testing
- Documentation
- Report Issues
- Submit Enhancement Requests
- Fix Bugs
- Implement Enhancements
Set Up
Before contributing to this project, please do the following:
- Become familiar with IxF
- Create a Github account
- Make sure you understand how to contribute to a github project by forking a repo and doing a pull request.
- If you need to add/move/rename folders or files, you will need to set up and know how to use git.
If you are a developer or QA engineer, please also do the following:
- Install Node.js on your laptop. If you are using Windows, make sure you add the directory to node.exe and npm.exe to your PATH system property.
- Install Buster.JS on your laptop and become familiar with writing unit tests in Buster.JS.
If you are a developer, please also do the following:
- Become familiar with jQuery, Handlebars.js, and RequireJS. Possibly become familiar with LESS and Backbone.js.