Cesium

This is a Bower package for amazing Cesium JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin.

The package contains source files from original Source directory under src directory and built minified files from Build/Cesium directory under dist directory.

Installation

In order to install Cesium with Bower run:

bower install cesium.js

How to prepare new Cesium release

1. Install recent Node.js and Node Package Manager. Using NVM installation script is a preferable way to do this. Git is also required to clone repositories.

2. Clone this repository:

    git clone [email protected]:solarpatrol/cesium-bower /path/to/cesium-bower
   

3. Switch to dev branch:

    git checkout dev
   

4. Install development dependencies:

    cd /path/to/cesium-bower
    npm install
   

5. Run update script passing Cesium version to update to (say, to 1.27):

    npm run update 1.27.0
   

   This one will do the following steps:

   • update version fields in package.json file of this repository;
   • install corresponding version of official Cesium package in node_modules;
   • copy source and build files from Cesium package to src and dist directories;
   • commit all changes to current (dev) branch.

   If you get a message like

   Bower package is already @1.27.0

   but want to continue update anyway then run:

    npm run update 1.27.0 -- --force
   

6. If you are a maintainer of this repository then merge all changes to master branch:

    git checkout master
    git merge --no-ff dev -m "Version 1.27.0."
    git tag -a 1.27.0 -m "Version 1.27.0."
   

   If you are a contributor then create a pull request to dev branch.

Contribution

Before making a pull request, please, be sure that your changes are rebased to dev branch.