adrs

ADR - Architecture Decision Records

Forked from https://github.com/phodal/adr, but with multi-template support instead of multi-language

Inspired by https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools, but supported Windows. ADR Blogpost: Documenting Architecture Decisions

A good material about Architecture decision record

Features

• Supported Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS
• report for PM, BA: html, csv, json
• multi-template support
• generate markdown toc（see in docs/adr ）
• status logs
• status query
• better list view
• compatible adr-tools
• custom templates: add a template.md file in the save path

Install

1. install

npm install -g adr

2. init

adr init <template>

e.x: adr init madr

Options available for templates are

basic
alexandrian
madr
planguage
tree_akerman
business_case

new

adr new <decision>

e.x: adr new "create project". It will open the new file with your config editor

list

adr list

result:

╔══════════════════════════════════════╤══════════════╤═══════════════════╗
║ Decision                             │ Last Modified│ Last Status       ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ 1. Using ADR in project              │ 2017-11-26   │ 2017-11-26        ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ 2. Adding template support           │ 2017-11-26   │ 2017-11-25        ║
╟──────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┼───────────────────╢
║ 3. Extending reporting               │ 2017-11-26   │ 2017-11-24        ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════╧══════════════╧═══════════════════╝

generate toc

adr generate toc

results:

# Architecture Decision Records

* [1. Using ADR in project](001-using_adr_in_project.md)
* [2. Adding template support](002-adding_template_support.md)
* [3. Extending reporting](003-extending_reporting.md)

generate graph

adr generate graph

update filename by title

adr update

decisions change logs

adr logs <index>

e.x. adr logs 9

╔════════════╤══════════╗
║  -         │    -     ║
╟────────────┼──────────╢
║ 2017-11-23 │ proposed ║
╟────────────┼──────────╢
║ 2017-11-24 │ accepted ║
╚════════════╧══════════╝

export adr

support: json, csv, html, markdown

adr export <type>

e.x. adr export csv

Index, Decision, Last modified, Last status
1, Using ADR in project, 2017-11-26, 2017-11-26 completed
2, Adding template support, 2017-11-26, 2017-11-25 completed
3, Extending reporting, 2017-11-26, 2017-11-24 completed

search adr

adr search <keyword>

e.x. adr search test

╔══════════════════════╤══════════════════════╗
║ Decision             │ Last updated, state  ║
╟──────────────────────┼──────────────────────╢
║ 19.added e2e test    │ 2017-11-28 proposed  ║
╟──────────────────────┼──────────────────────╢
║ 10. write unit tests │ 2017-11-26 completed ║
╚══════════════════════╧══════════════════════╝

Config

current:

• template, template
• path, save path
• digits, the index length, e.x. digits:3 001-index.md
• prefix, the prefix of files, e.x. adr-0001
• editor, the editor to open file, e.x. code, more information, and you can also use the editor by setting the program path, such as /System/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

example config:

{
  "path":"doc/adr/",
  "template":"madr",
  "prefix": "",
  "digits": 4,
  "editor": "code"
}

License

This code is distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE in this directory.