best-man v0.1.1

Best-man

Usage in package.json

From this:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build:dist": "NODE_ENV=development webpack --config $npm_package_webpack --progress --colors",
    "test": "NODE_ENV=production karma start"
  }
}

To this:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "best-man": "~0.0.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build:dist": "best-man build:dist",
    "build:prod": "best-man build:prod",
    "test": "best-man test"
  },
  "bestScripts": {
    "build:dist": "webpack --config $npm_package_webpack --progress --colors",
    "build:prod": {
      "command": "webpack --config $npm_package_webpack --progress --colors",
      "env": {
        "NODE_ENV": "production"
      }
    },
    "test": {
      "command": "karma start",
      "env": {
        "NODE_ENV": "test"
      }
    }
  }
}

The bestScripts script definition can either be a string or sub-object with command and env attributes. Values defined in the env block will override previously set environment variables.

Note that depending on the OS and terminal you're using, dots, spaces or other special characters in the command path may be treated as separators and the command will be parsed wrong.

{
  "serve:dist": "./node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --hot --inline --config webpack/development.js"
}

To prevent this you need to explicitly wrap the command path with double quotes:

{
  "serve:dist": "\"./node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server\" --hot --inline --config webpack/development.js"
}

.env File

If you have an .env file in your project root it will be loaded on every command.

NODE_PATH=./:./lib
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=5000

Environment variables defined in the bestScripts script definition will take precedence over .env values.

Shell scripts

Currently, using bash variables (PWD, USER, etc.) is not possible:

  "command": "forever start -l ${PWD}/logs/forever.log -o ${PWD}/logs/out.log -e ${PWD}/logs/errors.log -a index.js",

In order to use them, you can create an script file (.sh) instead:

forever.sh:

forever start -l ${PWD}/logs/forever.log -o ${PWD}/logs/out.log -e ${PWD}/logs/errors.log -a index.js

package.json:

  "command": "./forever.sh"

cli commands

This module expose 2 cli commands:

• best-man and,
• a shorter one: bnr which is an alias to the former.

The shorter one is useful for cases where you have a script that calls several best-man scripts. e.g:

using the normal cli name

"scripts": {
  "dev": "shell-exec 'best-man install-hooks' 'best-man watch-client' 'best-man start-dev' 'best-man start-dev-api' 'best-man start-dev-worker' 'best-man start-dev-socket'",
}

using the shorter alias

"scripts": {
  "dev": "shell-exec 'bnr install-hooks' 'bnr watch-client' 'bnr start-dev' 'bnr start-dev-api' 'bnr start-dev-worker' 'bnr start-dev-socket'",
}

And for silence output, you can use -s or verbose --silence flags

bnr -s watch-client

And you can use -p or verbose --path to specify a custom path of dotenv file

bnr --path=/custom/path/to/your/env/vars start-dev

Also use -e or verbose --encoding to specify the encoding of dotenv file

bnr --encoding=base64 start-dev