build-quip-app

build-quip-app is a utility that makes it easier to develop Quip Live Apps by providing additional functionality and wrapping around the default build process.

npm install -g build-quip-app

npm install -g https://github.com/herrevilkitten/build-quip-app.git

Commands

• build-quip-app version - Update the version name in a manifest
• build-quip-app build - update the build number in a manifest and run the build command

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build-quip-app version

The version command makes it easy to update the version name in a Quip manifest. The command can use semantic versioning with the semver module or a custom version can be supplied.

build-quip-app version <version> <options>

If the manifest's version name is already in semantic versioning format, then <version> can be one of

major
minor
patch
premajor
preminor
prepatch
prerelease

to automatically update the version name appropriately. For example, if the version name is 1.2.3 and the given version is minor, the new version name will be 1.3.0. If one of these entries is used and the manifest version name is NOT in semver format, an error will be displayed.

If anything else is used for the <version>, then the manifest version name will be set to that with no validation. For example, if the command is

build-quip-app version first-release

then version_name will be set to "first-release".

Options

Name	Description
--manifest	location of the manifest file to read from (default: ./app/manifest.json)
--output	location of the manifest file to write to (defaults to the manifest file)

Environment Variables

Name	Description
QUIP_VERSION_NAME	Can be used instead of supplying the version name on the command line.

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build-quip-app build

The build command is used to build the Live App. It does modifying the manifest file and then running a defined build command (default: npm run build). The most important modification that it makes to the manifest is updating the version_number. It also supports modifying the live app's id and its version_name. Note that version name changes are better handled with the version command.

build-quip-app build <options>

Version Numbers

By default, build-quip-app will take the version_number from the manifest and increment it by 1. This behavior can be controlled with command-line options and environment variables. With the --version-number option and QUIP_VERSION_NUMBER environment variable, the value can be set directly. The --no-increment option can be used to suppress the auto-incrementing.

For example, if the version_number in the manifest is 1

build-quip-app build

will set it to 2.

build-quip-app build --no-increment

will keep it at 1.

build-quip-app build --version-number=10

will set it to 10.

QUIP_VERSION_NUMBER=10 build-quip-app build

will also set it to 10.

Options

Name	Description
--manifest	location of the manifest file to read from (default: ./app/manifest.json)
--output	location of the manifest file to write to (defaults to the manifest file)
--no-increment	Do not increment the version number during the build
--no-build	Do not run the build command
--app-id	Set the id in the manifest to the given value
--version-name	Set the version_name in the manifest to the given value
--version-number	Set the version_number in the manifest to the given value
--build-command	The command that is run after the manifest changes to build the Live App (default: npm run start)

Environment Variables

Name	Description
QUIP_APP_ID	Can be used instead of supplying the app ID on the command line.
QUIP_VERSION_NAME	Can be used instead of supplying the version name on the command line.
QUIP_VERSION_NUMBER	Can be used instead of supplying the version number on the command line.