laoban-dev

Variables

Our scripts need to be ‘customized’. For example we might want to include the name of the project in a script.

How do I find out what variables exist

A good way is to execute a script in a single directory and add -v to the end

   cd modules/project
   laoban helloWorld -v

On my windows machine this gives the following

{
  "laobanDirectory": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code",
  "laobanConfig": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code\\laoban.json",
  "templateDir": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code/template",
  "versionFile": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code/template/version.txt",
  "log": ".log",
  "status": ".status",
  "profile": ".profile",
  "packageManager": "yarn",
  "sessionDir": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code\\.session",
  "throttle": 0,
  "os": "Windows_NT",
  "packageDirectory": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code\\modules\\variables",
  "projectDetails": {
    "template": "typescript",
    "name": "@laoban/variables",
    "description": "A library that can dereference ${xxx} in strings",
    "guards": {
      "publish": true
    }
  }
}

Legal variables from this include

 ${packageDirectory}
 ${projectDetails.description}
 ${projectDetails.details.publish}

If you want to see what the variables are in each project you can try laoban <scriptname> -asv which will fill the screen with details…

How do I use variables

In the run command

laoban run 'echo "Hello ${packageDirectory}"' 
laoban run 'echo "Hello ${projectDetails.name} ${projectDetails.description}"' 

In the laoban.json scripts section

An example script showing most uses is here:

    {"start"     : {
      "description": "${packageManager} start for all projects that have a port defined in package.details.json",
      "guard"      : "${projectDetails.details.port}",
      "commands"   : ["${packageManager} start"],
      "env"        : {"PORT": "${projectDetails.details.port}"}
    }}

Debugging variables

My approach is usually

• change the directory to a project directory that is giving me a project
• execute the laoban with -v added to the end

Example

cd template
laoban helloWorld -v

The output is

Raw command is [echo Hello ${packageDirectory}] became [echo Hello C:\git\laoban\code\modules\variables]
legal variables are
{
  "laobanDirectory": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code",
  "laobanConfig": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code\\laoban.json",
  "templateDir": "C:\\git\\laoban\\code/template",
  ...(lines removed)...

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