@asset-pipe/cli

Asset Pipe V3 CLI

Installation

npm install -g @asset-pipe/cli

Quickstart guide

Step 1.

Generate an assets.json file in the current directory

asset-pipe init

Fill in the generated assets.json file with the necessary details.

For the server property, if you are using a locally running asset server the server property will likely be http://localhost:4001

Set the js.input and css.input properties of assets.json with paths to client side asset files in your project relative to the assets.json file. Eg. if you have a scripts.js file in an assets directory, the js.input value will be assets/scripts.js

Step 2

Run publish to publish your assets to the server

asset-pipe publish

For subsequent publishes, you will need to version your asset.json file before publishing again since each publish version is immutable. You can do this by editing assets.json and setting a new previously unpublished version. You should adhere to semver using a version number that makes sense. The cli can help you with this.

Eg. To bump the version from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 you can use the version patch command like so:

asset-pipe version patch

Additional tasks

Publishing organisation wide global dependencies

When you wish to share a version of a module used across an organisation, you can use the dependency command to do so.

This feature does the following:

• converts a module already published to npm to esm
• makes it available through the asset server

Example use case

You might decide that all teams across your organisation should use the same version of lodash via a publish url (rather than each team bundling their own version).

To do so you would run:

asset-pipe dependency lodash 4.17.15

After running this, an esm friendly version of lodash will be available at the url: http://<asset server url>/<organisation>/pkg/lodash/4.17.15

It's now possible for each team to reference this globally published module directly in their own client side code as follows:

import lodash from `http://<asset server url>/<organisation>/pkg/lodash/4.17.15`;

This has the benefit that if all teams are referencing lodash in this way, the browser will cache the module the first time it encouters it and all subsequent pages will not need to download it again.

Aliasing published modules

Aliasing allows you to tag specific published versions of modules with a more general tag or version that you are also able to centrally change and control as needed.

The benefit of this is that you can alias a specific version of a dependency and then update that alias overtime as you publish new versions of the dependency and have all dependents immediately receive the change.

Example use case

Taking the previous example 1 step further, before we saw that we could globally publish a specific version of lodash, in this case 4.17.15.

We can now set a major semver alias for this version:

asset-pipe alias lodash 4.15.15 4

We can now change our import statement to:

import lodash from `http://<asset server url>/<organisation>/pkg/lodash/v4`;

and everything will work as before.

When a new version of lodash comes out, we can create a global dependency for it as before:

asset-pipe dependency lodash 4.17.16

And then create a major semver alias for the new version like so:

asset-pipe alias lodash 4.15.16 4

In this way, no client side code will need to be updated to reflect this change and it is considerably easier for multiple teams to stay in sync, using the same global shared dependency

Using import maps to map "bare imports"

Import maps are an emerging standard and a way to map "bare imports" such as foo in the import statement import { bar, baz } from 'foo' to modules to be loaded. In Asset Pipe, we provide a way to upload import map files and to specify them for use in bundling. Doing so allows you to specify, across an organisation, a common set of shared modules whether they be react or lit-html or whatever.

Making use of import maps is as follows.

1. Define an import map json file
2. Use the asset pipe CLI to upload the import map to the server
3. Specify the URL to your import map file(s) in your assets.json file
4. Use the publish commands, your import maps will be used to map bare imports in your code to the URLs you have defined in your import maps

Import maps, an example

Given the following import map file import-map.json

{
    "imports": {
        "lit-html": "http://localhost:4001/finn/pkg/lit-html/v1/index.js",
        "lodash": "http://localhost:4001/finn/pkg/lodash/v4/index.js"
    }
}

The following command will upload the import map file ./import-map.json in the current directory using the name my-import-map and the version 1.0.0

asset-pipe --org finn map my-import-map 1.0.0 ./import-map.json

Given the following line now added to assets.json

{
    "import-map": ["http://localhost:4001/finn/map/my-import-map/1.0.0"]
}

When we run asset-pipe publish any "bare imports" refering to either lit-html or lodash will be mapped to the URLs in our map.

In this way, you can control which version of react or lit-html or lodash all the apps in your organisation are using. In combination with package alias URLs you have a powerful way to manage key shared dependencies for your apps in production without the need to redeploy or rebundle when a new version of a dependency is released.

Accessing meta information about a package

It's possible to access information about a published package with the meta command. The command returns information in JSON format.

Example

asset-pipe meta lodash 4.17.16

API Documentation

Command Summary

command	aliases	description
init	i	Create an assets.json file in the current directory
version	v	Helper command for bumping your apps asset.json version field
publish	p, pub	Publish an app bundle
dependency	d, dep	Publish a dependency bundle
map	m	Sets or deletes a "bare" import entry in an import-map file
alias	a	Sets a major semver alias for a given dependency or map
meta	show	Retrieves meta information for a package

Commands Overview

init

This command takes no input and creates a new assets.json file in the current directory with the following content:

{
    "organisation": "[required]",
    "name": "[required]",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "server": "http://assets-server.svc.prod.finn.no",
    "js": {
        "input": "[path to js entrypoint]",
        "options": {}
    },
    "css": {
        "input": "[path to css entrypoint]",
        "options": {}
    },
    "import-map": []
}

You will then need to change the various fields as appropriate. If you are running a local asset server, the default server url should be http://localhost:4001.

assets.json properties

property	description
organisation	Unique organisation namespace of your choosing
name	App name, must be unique to each organisation
version	App version, unique to each app. Must be increased for each publish
server	Address to the asset server
js	Configuration for JavaScript assets
css	Configuration for CSS assets
import-map	Specify import maps to be used to map bare imports during bundling

organisation

All asset uploads are scoped to an organisation. You may choose any organisation name that is not already taken or that you already belong to. Organisation names may contain any letters or numbers as well as the - and _ characters.

Example

{
    "organisation": "finn"
}

name

All asset uploads within each organisation must have a name. When publishing a dependency from npm the name will be the package name taken from the module's package.json file. When publishing the assets for your app, the name field of your project's assets.json file is used. Names may contain any letters or numbers as well as the - and _ characters.

{
    "name": "my-awesome-app"
}

version

All asset uploads are unique by organisation, name and version. It is not possible to republish the same app with the same version in the same organisation. In order to publish a new version of an asset, the version number must first be incremented. When publishing an asset from npm, the version of the package comes from the packages package.json version field. When publishing assets for your own app, the version comes from the version specified in assets.json. In both cases, versions comply with semver.

The version property in assets.json starts at 1.0.0 by convention and should be incremented as you see fit either manually or by using the asset-pipe version major|minor|patch command.

Either way, when you attempt to republish a package with the same version, publishing will fail and you will need to update the version field before trying again.

{
    "version": "1.0.0"
}

server

This is the address to the asset server you are using. This might be a locally running version of the asset server (usually http://localhost:4001) or an asset server running in production (TBD)

{
    "server": "http://localhost:4001"
}

js

This field is used to configure bundling and publishing of JavaScript assets. Use js.input to configure the location on disk, relative to assets.json, where the entrypoint for your JavaScript client side assets are located.

scripts.js file inside assets folder

{
    "js": {
        "input": "./assets/scripts.js"
    }
}

css

This field is used to configure bundling and publishing of CSS assets. Use css.input to configure the location on disk, relative to assets.json, where the entrypoint for your CSS client side assets are located.

styles.css file inside assets folder

{
    "css": {
        "input": "./assets/styles.css"
    }
}

import-map

This field is used to configure the location of any import map files to be used when creating bundles. The field should be an array and can hold any number of url strings pointing to locations of import-map files that will be downloaded and merged together

defining a single import map file

{
    "import-map": ["http://localhost:4001/map/my-import-map/1.0.0"]
}

version

This command updates the version field of an assets.json file in the current directory based on the argument given (major, minor, patch).

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe version major|minor|patch [optional arguments]

Examples

Increase the version's semver major by 1

asset-pipe version major

Increase the version's semver minor by 1

asset-pipe version minor

Increase the version's semver patch by 1

asset-pipe version patch

publish

This command publishes the app's client side assets to the asset server based on the values in an assets.json file in the current directory.

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe publish [optional arguments]

Example

Publishing app assets to server

asset-pipe publish

dependency

This command will download the specified (by name and version) package from NPM, create a bundle with it and then publish it to the asset server. The resulting bundle will be in esm module format, converting from common js if needed.

Note The arguments server, organisation and import-map are taken from assets.json if such a file is present in the current directory. If not, you will need to specify these values with the command line flags --server, --org and --map.

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe dependency [optional arguments] <name> <version>

Example

Publishing a dependency from npm

asset-pipe dependency lit-html 1.1.2
# asset-pipe dependency --server http://localhost:4001 --org finn --map http://localhost:4001/finn/map/my-import-map/1.0.0 lit-html 1.1.2

alias

This command creates a semver alias for a given published bundle. Creating aliases allows for more flexible referencing of published bundles. You can update an alias to point to the latest version of a bundle without needing to update every client that makes use of your bundle.

Note The arguments server and organisation are taken from assets.json if such a file is present in the current directory. If not, you will need to specify these values with the command line flags --server and --org.

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe alias [optional arguments] <name> <version> <alias>

Example

Running the following command...

asset-pipe alias lit-html 1.1.2 1
# asset-pipe alias --server http://localhost:4001 --org finn lit-html 1.1.2 1

...will create or update the lit-html alias 1 to point at lit-html version 1.1.2

map

This command uploads an import map json file you have created locally to the server. You must upload the file with a name and a version and the file must be of the form:

{
    "imports": {
        "<dependency name 1>": "url to dependency",
        "<dependency name 2>": "url to dependency"
    }
}

Note The arguments server and organisation are taken from assets.json if such a file is present in the current directory. If not, you will need to specify these values with the command line flags --server and --org.

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe map [optional arguments] <name> <version> <path to file>

asset-pipe map my-import-map 1.0.0 ./import-map.json
# asset-pipe map --server http://localhost:4001 --org finn my-import-map 1.0.0 ./import-map.json

meta

This command fetches and displays meta information about a package from the server

The command takes the form:

asset-pipe meta [optional arguments] <name> <version>

Example

Running the following command...

asset-pipe meta lit-html 1.1.2
# asset-pipe meta --server http://localhost:4001 --org finn lit-html 1.1.2

Will print meta information about the package lit-html version 1.1.2 in JSON format.

Programmatic Usage

All of the commands described above can be used programmatically by importing this package. Each command and its programmatic usage is given below.

init

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.Init(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null	no
cwd	path to current working directory	string	process.cwd()	no
org	organisation name	string	''	no
name	app name	string	''	no
version	app version	string	'1.0.0'	no
server	URL to asset server	string	''	no
js	path to client side script entrypoint	string	''	no
css	path to client side style entrypoint	string	''	no

version

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.Version(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	options	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null		no
cwd	path to current working directory	string	process.cwd()		no
level	semver level to bump version field by	string		major, minor, patch	yes

publish

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.publish.App(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null	no
cwd	path to current working directory	string	process.cwd()	no
org	organisation name	string		yes
name	app name	string		yes
version	app version	string		yes
server	URL to asset server	string		yes
js	path to client side script entrypoint	string		yes
css	path to client side style entrypoint	string		yes
map	array of urls of import map files	string[]	[]	no
dryRun	exit early and print results	boolean	false	no

dependency

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.publish.Dependency(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null	no
cwd	path to current working directory	string	process.cwd()	no
org	organisation name	string		yes
name	app name	string		yes
version	app version	string		yes
server	URL to asset server	string		yes
map	array of urls of import map files	string[]	[]	no
dryRun	exit early and print results	boolean	false	no

map

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.publish.Map(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null	no
cwd	path to current working directory	string	process.cwd()	no
org	organisation name	string		yes
name	app name	string		yes
version	app version	string		yes
server	URL to asset server	string		yes
file	path to import map file to be uploaded	string		yes

alias

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.Alias(options).run();

options

name	description	type	default	choices	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null		no
server	URL to asset server	string			yes
org	organisation name	string			yes
type	type of resource to alias	string		pkg, map	yes
name	app name	string			yes
version	app version	string			yes
alias	major number of a semver version number	string			yes

meta

const cli = require('@asset-pipe/cli');
const result = await new cli.Meta(options).run();

name	description	type	default	choices	required
logger	log4j compliant logger object	object	null		no
server	URL to asset server	string			yes
org	organisation name	string			yes
name	package name	string			yes
version	package version	string			yes