deployme

An automated tool to deploy untracked files to servers (such as images) through the use of SFTP.

Installation

npm

The Node-package-manager (npm) is the recommended way to install deployme. To install via npm, run npm install deployme -g. The -g parameter specifies that the package should be installed globally, which is recommended for nearly every use case.

In addition, there are a few other varieties to installing via npm:

# install through this GitHub repository
npm install panchr/deployme -g

# Install directly through GitHub
npm install https://github.com/panchr/node-deployme.git -g

git

To install via git, run these commands in your terminal of choice:

git clone https://github.com/panchr/node-deployme.git
cd node-deployme

Now, you can directly access the CLI (Command Line Interface) by using ./bin/cli. Again, I highly recommend using npm instead.

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Configuration

The CLI tool uses the default configuration file, .deploy-config. To generate a standard configuration file, run deployme init. This will generate the configuration file in the current directory.

Note: deployme will search for a .deploy-config file in any of the parent directories of the current working directory. So, it is possible to run the tool in any subdirectory of a project.

The configuration options are stored as standard JSON.

name	description	type	default value
host	The host name of the server	String	"localhost"
port	Port to connect to the server with	int	22
username	The username to connect with	String	"root"
password	The password of the above user	String	""
local	An object of local configuration	Object	{}
local.root	The local root of the files to sync	String	"."
local.directories	The local directories to sync	Array	[]
local.files	The local files to sync (not supported yet)	Array	[]
remote	An object of remote configuration	Object	{}
remote.root	The remote root to sync to	String	"/"

For example, here is a sample configuration file:

{
	"host": "myserver.io",
	"port": 22,
	"username": "panchr",
	"password": "v3rys3cure",
	"local": {
		"root": "static",
		"directories": ["images", "icons"],
		"files": ["myfavicon.ico", "secure.js"]
	},
	"remote": {
		"root": "/var/www/site"
	}
}

Usage

deployme comes with a few useful commands:

• init
• reset
• help
• diff
• sync
• local
• remote

init

This is the initialization script. To use it, run deployme init. It will walk you through the setup of the main configuration file, .deploy-config.

reset

Reset is very similar to init. In fact, it provides the same functionality but allows you to override previous options. It is invoked via deployme reset.

help

To get a list of commands and what they do, use deployme help.

diff

To see what the files that need to be synced, run deployme diff.

sync

Finally, deployme sync will calculate the required changes to be synced and then upload the appropriate files to the remote server.

local

deployme local provides a series of subcommands that allows you to configure the local settings of the syncer:

Subcommand	Argument	Description	Example
root	path	Set the local root path to the file path	deployme local root /static
add	path	Add a local path to be synced	deployme local add /test
add	glob pattern	Add matching local paths to be synced	deployme local add *.css
remove	path	Remove a local path from being synced	deployme local remove mystyle.css
remove	glob pattern	Remove matching local paths from being synced	deployme local remove test/*

remote

deployme remote only provides one command so far, but more will be added soon. Each subcommand allows you to configure the remote settings of the syncer:

Subcommand	Argument	Description	Example
root	filepath	Set the remote root path to "filepath"	deployme remote root /var/www/static