The generate-symbols.js task runs JSDoc on source files. Because this takes a long time (13s) to run on the whole library, the resulting symbols file includes additional metadata to make it possible to do incremental symbol generation on subsequent runs. The 'path' and 'extends' metadata for a symbol are used to determine what needs to be regenerated.
This runs JSDoc with the "symbols" config, providing a list of source files that have been changed since the previous run. The output is used to generate a symbols.json metadata file containing all exportable symbols info. A separate task will be run to generate the exports.js file. These same metadata files will be used by a build tool.
This strips markup from elements with id attributes that we care about: title, shortdesc, tags. This will only work for people who use `npm install && npm start` to browse examples. The other example parser doesn't strip this markup, so it should still not be used in these elements.
This provides some initial development utilities for people using Node.
Instructions for installing:
npm install
After pulling down the dependencies, you can start a developement server that provides the libraries (ol and Closure Library) in debug mode (not minified/compiled). Run the dev server with the following:
npm start
Currently, the example index page needs to be built with `build.py`. After building that, you should be able to browse all static files, view the examples and run the tests.
