@zettelooo/build-tools

Zettel: Build helper tools

Build and helper tools for Zettel projects development.

Installation

$ npm install --save-dev @zettelooo/build-tools

Usage

This package provides shell command zettel-bt executable binary. You can use it to speed up a couple of tasks while developing Zettel extensions.

See help:

$ zettel-bt --help   # / -h

Check for all the updates available on the dependencies:

$ zettel-bt check

Upgrade all the dependencies to their very latest versions:

$ zettel-bt update-all

Upgrade all the Zettel official dependencies (which belong to @zettelooo/ scope) to their very latest versions:

$ zettel-bt update

Validates the correctness of peer dependencies:

$ zettel-bt validate

Pre-version checks and actions (check branch is master):

$ zettel-bt preversion

Post-version checks and actions (push changes to the remote GIT repository):

$ zettel-bt postversion

Catch and store the version into a source file before committing:

$ zettel-bt catch-version [file] [indicator]

• [file] is the relative path of the target version containing file
• [indicator] is anything to indicate the target line of code, maybe as a part of a comment on that line

View GIT history visualized:

$ zettel-bt gource

You probably need to install gource globaly first.
See this link.

Summarize the size of the code-base in lines of code:

$ zettel-bt status

Configuration

You may provide the following configuration parameters either as the CLI command flags or options in the config file; which is either .zettelbtrc, .zettelbtrc.json, .zettelbtrc.js, .zettelbtrc.yml, or .zettelbtrc.yaml.

RC file property path	Command-line flag	Default	Description
paths.root	-r, --root-path	"."	Project root relative path, contains package.json file
paths.src	-s, --src-path	"src"	Source folder relative path to root

Development

Clone the repository locally:

$ git clone [e-mail]:zettelooo/build-tools.git

Install the dependencies:

$ cd build-tools
$ npm install

It's recommended to use VS Code to develop this project. You need to have Prettier extension to be installed on your IDE.

Publication

Publish a new version of the NPM package:

• Push all the changes. The workspace needs to be cleaned.
• Make sure you're on master branch.

$ npm version patch   # / minor / major / any other valid semantic version

Misc

Note: As a Zettel repository, this package uses its own provided scripts by itself!

You can use the following NPM script to access it (See this link for more details):

$ npm run bt -- <command>   # e.g.: npm run bt - update

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