📄️ Frequently asked questions
This page tries to help you by anticipating on the questions you might have.
📄️ Installing Ampersand
Ampersand is great for rapid prototyping. We advise you to use Ampersand on the web because it works without installing anything. But sometimes you want to run your prototypes on your own computer\(s\). For different purposes there are different ways of doing that. This chapter shows you how.
📄️ Deploying your prototype
How do you get started if you just want to build and run your first prototype? Read this page, which is full of hyperlinks to background knowledge you will need in the future if you deploy more often.
📄️ Manual installation
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🗃️ Contributor's guide
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📄️ Best practices for Ampersand modellers
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📄️ Configuring your application
Local Settings for the client-side application
📄️ A list of all instructional videos
📄️ Creating Custom BOX Templates
This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating custom BOX templates in the Ampersand prototype framework. We'll use the FILTEREDDROPDOWN template as a practical example throughout this tutorial.
📄️ Creating Custom VIEW Templates
A VIEW in Ampersand determines how an atom renders in the frontend. Without a VIEW, the frontend shows the atom's internal identifier. A VIEW maps relations onto named slots and passes those slot values to an HTML template for rendering.
📄️ Updating and Releasing the Prototype Framework
This guide describes how to release a new version of the Ampersand Prototype Framework. It covers the manual steps a maintainer must take before automation takes over, and the points to watch.
📄️ How to deploy RAP
This guide will lay down the steps required to deploy RAP to Docker and to Kubernetes.