Exposing your custom config in a Web client

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    In this guide, we use the Comunica Web Client to run our engine client-side as a static Web page, just like http://query.linkeddatafragments.org/.

    This guide assumes you already expose your custom config as an npm package.

    1. Cloning the repo

    1. Go to https://github.com/comunica/jQuery-Widget.js/
    2. Make sure you are logged into your GitHub account.
    3. Click on the "Fork" button.

    After this, a copy of the jQuery-Widget.js repo will be available for your account in which you can make all the changes you want.

    Next, we will clone your fork to the local file system as follows:

    $ git clone https://github.com/<my-username>/jQuery-Widget.js.git

    Make sure you replace <my-username> with your GitHub username.

    As a final setup step, we can install all dependencies as follows:

    $ cd jQuery-Widget.js
$ yarn install

    2. Plugging in your custom config

    By default, the Web client is configured with Comunica SPARQL (@comunica/query-sparql). In this step, we will modify it so that our custom engine is configured instead.

    First, install our package as a dependency:

    $ npm install my-package

    Make sure to replace my-package by the name of the package you created before.

    Next, replace the import in config/config-default.json as follows:

    {
  ...
  "import": [
    "my:config/config-default.json"
  ]
}

    Make sure to replace the "my" prefix, so it refers to the scope of your package.

    3. Build and run

    These were the only changes required to plug your package into the Web client.

    To start a local Web server to test your engine, run the following:

    $ yarn run dev

    To create an actual build in the build/ folder that can be deployed to any Web server, run the following:

    $ yarn run build

    Optionally, you can now tweak the default datasources and queries.