laborious

CLI tools for the lazy Gitlab developer.

laborious is a CLI app to execute common tasks (create Merge Request, checkout Merge Request for review, ...) without the need to access Gitlab's web view.

Install

Requires git 2.7+ and node 8+ to be installed.

$ yarn add -D laborious

or

$ npm install -D laborious

Usage

It is recommended to add laborious to your package.json's scripts. This way you have easy access to all commands via yarn/npm.

For example, if you add the following to your scripts, you can do yarn lab <command> or npm run lab <command> to run laborious.

{
  "scripts": {
    "lab": "laborious"
  }
}

Available Commands

Note, you can run laborious without any commands to view the help and get an overview of all available commands.

init

Alias: i

Create a laborious.json configuration file. You'll get ask some questions and the file will be created for you afterwards.

open

Alias: o

Uses your default browser to open the homepage of your project in Gitlab.

merge-request

Alias: mr

Create a merge request for the current branch. The target branch is specified in your laborious config.

checkout

Alias: co

List available Merge Requests and branches. Select one of them to switch to the corresponding branch. This will also try to update the branch to the latest commit.

ping

Ping Gitlab API.

Configuration

In order to get information about your project from Gitlab, laborious uses the configured git origin to infer the location of the Gitlab API. Make sure your project is hosted on (self-hosted) Gitlab! If you want to test, if laborious can reach your Gitlab, use the ping command.

Authentication

Some commands, like creating a Merge Request, require authentication. laborious will ask you for a personal access token if this is the case.

You can also add the token manually, by creating a .laborious in your home directy.

Integration with yargs

Since laborious is using yargs as CLI framework, you can require commands directly if you're already have your own CLI build with yargs. To integrate laborious' commands in your CLI you can do the following:

import { getCommandsDir } from 'laborious';
import yargs from 'yargs';
 
const argv = yargs
  .commandDir('./my-commands')
  .commandDir(getCommandsDir())
  .alias('help', 'h').argv;