mono-cli

A single command to do all your tasks across any project. This cli aims to supports any runtime, language, framework, package manager, test framework etc.

Problem

Right now to run new project (where you are new to the project) you have to do the following

1. read the docs just to find what should you run to get your development environment up
2. But over the years dues tools like npm,yarn,maven,gradle the commands have some de-facto standard viz
   1. with npm you will run npm start or npm run dev
   2. with maven you will run maven start
   3. and so on
3. yet every time you have to read throgh docs to find what command to run which is not good DX

Solution

1. This cli tries to abstract away the actual commands as these commands are very tightly coupled with the framework or tech stack you are choosing.
2. The idea is to give you abstraction on top of some industry standard commands to get rid of your hustle.

How does it work

1. It tries to detect multiple deciding factors like runtime, package manager, framework, bundler, linter, test runner, test framework
2. Then it runs the default commands for each of mentioned factor like npm install or webpack serve etc

Advantages of using mono-cli

1. imagine you have to jump between multiple projects like nextjs, create-react-app, remix.run etc.
2. When you jump from nextjs to create-react-app the command change from npm run dev to npm start
3. And you have to either recall that or check in the docs
4. With mono-cli you have to remember just the verbs like install, build, clean, start etc and prefix them with mono and you have one command doing same job across projects.
5. mono-cli internally detects things like what runtime, package manager, dev start commands to run and runs those commands on your behalf.
6. See the usage section below to see the commands and their defaults

installation

Using brew

brew install technikhil314/mono-cli/mono-cli

Manual

Download latest and specific artifact for your OS and arch from the releases section.

and run following commands using any POSIX shell viz sh, bash, ksh, fish, zsh etc

For UNIX like OS

tar -xvzf <path to the zip you downloaded>
cp ./mono /usr/local/bin

Default subcommand nomenclature

command	Purpose	Current support
bootstrap	Install all dependancies mentioned in file	:heavycheckmark:
install	Install individual depndancy	TO DO
build	build for production deployment	TO DO
devbuild	build with robust debugging enables	TO DO
lint	run linter	TO DO
test	run all tests	TO DO
testfile	run tests in written in a file	TO DO
testpattern	run all tests that match a pattern	TO DO
cover	run all tests and generate coverage report	TO DO
clean	delete all dependancies	TO DO
cleancache	clear package managers cache	TO DO
cleanbuildcache	clear build cache	TO DO

Usage

1. Add this code to your favourite shell init script
2. This cli follows a Unix standard command pattern so any arguments after -- will be passed further down to actual commands like mvn, npm etc
3. and then run following commands for each described task

Currently supported commands

command	Purpose	Supports	Depends on	Default
mono bootstrap	install all dependancies.	npm, yarn, pnpn, lerna, mvn, gradle, go mod	lock files or monorepo config files	if no lock file found then defaults to npm

⚠️ Notice

This is still a WIP project. Feel free to raise issues, contribute or suggest. TIA.

License

MIT