Follow the instructions here to ease frontend development for the Admin View (ambari-admin module)
- Follow the Quick Start Guide to install and start Ambari Server (cluster need not be deployed).
- Follow the "Frontend Development" section in Quick Start Guide to check out the Ambari source using git. This makes the entire Ambari source available via /vagrant/ambari from the Vagrant VM.
- From the Ambari Server host: cd /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/views/work
Note: If this directory does not exist, you have not started ambari-server; run "ambari-server start" to start it
- Move the existing Admin View working directory to tmp: mv ADMIN_VIEW{1.0.0} /tmp
- Create a symbolic link to your ln -s /vagrant/ambari/ambari-admin/src/main/resources/ui/admin-web/dist ADMIN_VIEW{1.0.0}
- Copy the existing view definition file in place: cp /tmp/ADMIN_VIEW{1.0.0}/view.xml ADMIN_VIEW{1.0.0}
- Restart Ambari Server for the changes to take affect: ambari-server restart
Now you can change the source code for Admin View and run gulp locally, and the changes are automatically reflected on the server.