UOLI

Quickly switch between projects, changing the HOSTS file and the Templatecache templates

Just run uoli project-a or uoli project-b to change you TCL templates and HOSTS file for the given projects

Pre requisites

• You will need to have Node.js installed on your machine
• Define the environment variable TCLPATH heading to the templatecache-local root dir, e.g. /Users/{username}/templatecache-local or C:\templatecache-local
• Create a directory to store your HOSTS files, e.g. /Users/{username}/hosts or c:\hosts
• Define the environment variable HOSTSPATH heading to the HOSTS directory you have created
• Make sure you have administration permissions in the following files and directories:
  • Templatecache-local directory
  • Your HOSTS directory
  • the HOSTS file

Instalation

• Run $ npm install uoli -g
• Mac users may need to run it with sudo

Usage

Create a project:

To create a new project, set your HOSTS file and templates directory the way you want your project to be and run:

• $ uoli create foo

  • This will:
    • Copy your current HOSTS file content into a foo.hosts file created on your HOSTS directory
    • Copy your current templates directory content into a templates-foo directory created on your TCL

• $ uoli create foo tc or $ uoli create foo host

  • Will do only the tc or the hosts parts, respectively

Switch projects

After creating your projects, you can switch between them, running:

• $ uoli foo

  • This will:
    • Copy the foo.hosts content into your HOSTS file
    • Create a symbolic link from the templates-foo directory to the templates directory

• $ uoli foo tc or $ uoli foo host

  • Will do only the tc or the hosts parts, respectively