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machinepack
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Command-line tool for working with machinepacks and machines.
$ npm install -g machinepack
Note that you'll also want to grab the Yeoman generator
You should check out http://node-machine.org/implementing for an in-depth tutorial, but here are a few highlights:
# open generated manpage on node-machine.org in your browser of choice
mp browse
# run a machine
# (theres an interactive prompt- you'll get to choose from a list, then be prompted to provide values for required inputs)
# (supports json entry and validation, re-running using command-line flags, and protects inputs marked as "protected" so they don't show up in your bash history)
mp exec
# clean everything up: (re)scaffold JSON test files, (re)generate readme using latest metadata, make sure repo url is in package.json, etc.
mp scrub
# list machines (useful for remembering wtf you're doing)
mp ls
# add new machine w/ identity="do-some-stuff" and start interactive prompt to get the rest of the necessary info
mp add do-some-stuff
# copy machine (useful for quickly creating similar machines)
mp cp foo bar
# rename machine (useful for fixing misspellings)
mp mv initiate-denk-party initiate-dance-party
This CLI tool is just sugar on top of the machine specification. That said, it helps a lot, and if you're building a pack, I highly recommend checking it out.
MIT © 2015 Mike McNeil
FAQs
CLI tool for working with machinepacks and their machines.
The npm package machinepack receives a total of 11 weekly downloads. As such, machinepack popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that machinepack demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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