cody-cli

Cody CLI

Cody is a command line utility designed to help web development at the beginning of the developer's career.


Why?

I've spent almost one year of my life teaching the basics of web development to people who were completely strangers to this mighty and vaste universe.

I discovered there are tons of concepts that needs to be learned, among those the environment which runs the code.

Setting up a simple server (NIGIX, Apache) it's a difficult business, setting up Grunt / Gulp to transpile LESS is even more difficult, especially if you don't know Javascript!

I think those guys need a tool that allows in focusing on getting an Hello World done, not getting the exercise being executed!

Features

• run your html through a proper HTTP server
• get code hints for Javascript, CSS, Less*, Sass*
• transparent transpilers:
  • write CSS, Less* or Sass*
  • write ES6* or even ES7*
  • use ES6 modules* to include Javascript into Javascript

(*) to be done

Install & Run

Cody comes as a globally available command line tool:

npm install -g cody-cli

Once it is installed you can easily bootstrap a new web project:

// setup a new empty folder
mkdir my-web-project
cd my-web-project

// this run the magic!
cody 

You project will be available at http://localhost:3000 immediately, and every change in your project's folder will be reflected in the server.

Less

Cody is able to understand less and sass:

foo.less -> foo.less.css
foo.scss -> foo.scss.css

All your transpiled code supports sourcemaps_ out of the box!