vtex

VTEX Toolbelt

CLI tool for developing VTEX apps.

Getting started

The VTEX Toolbelt can be installed via npm. If you don't have it installed, you can get it bundled with node:

• Linux
• Mac and Windows

Installing the VTEX Toolbelt

It's recommended that you install it globally (you may need sudo or administrative privileges):

npm install -g vtex

Warming up

Remember that your project needs to meet some requirements to work:

1. You need to have a VTEX ID credential in order to send the files to the developer environment or publish an app

2. Your app must have a proper manifest.json, here's an example:

   {
     "name": "app-name",
     "version": "0.2.0",
     "vendor": "vtex"
   }
   

Developing an app

If you need help with the structure of your project or you just don't want to spend the time with this tinkering, you can use our generator!

On the root of your project, run the vtex watch and click or copy the URL provided by the VTEX Toolbelt.

That should do it! The VTEX Toolbelt watcher will be monitoring your files and send them to the VTEX Gallery as soon as you edit them.

For more information on the commands, options and other configs, you can seek more information below!

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Auth

You can use vtex login to login with yout VTEX ID credentials or vtex logout if you're already logged in and want to change credentials.

When logging in, you will be asked for 3 things:

• The account name of the store you wish to work on
• Your VTEX ID e-mail
• Your VTEX ID password

If you wish to work on another account, logout and login again with that account.

Note that watch and publish implicitly checks if you're logged, and if you're not, it asks your credentials before proceeding.

Watch

To develop an app locally, open the directory where your VTEX app is and then type:

vtex watch

VTEX Toolbelt will upload all your app files to the developer environment, print an URL for your use and will be watching for any changes you make to the files.

There's other forms of use too, if you use the options:

Option	Alias
vtex watch --webpack	vtex watch -w
vtex watch --server	vtex watch -s

Webpack

You can run the VTEX Toolbelt watcher in parallel with the Webpack watcher if you use the --webpack option under the watch command.

Make sure that you have a well configured and working webpack.config.js on the root of your project.

vtex watch --webpack

Dev Server

You can also run the VTEX Toolbelt watcher in parallel with the Dev Server watcher if you use the --server option under the watch command.

As Dev Server uses Webpack, you also need a webpack.config.js file on the root of yout project.

vtex watch --server

You need to call it this way if you want to enable Hot Module Replacement, see below for more information on how to configure your project for this.

Livereload

Add to your layout the following script:

<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1"></script>

Hot Module Replacement

First things first, you need to use babel. Then, there's a few packages you need to install:

• babel-plugin-react-transform
• react-transform-hmr
• react-transform-catch-errors (actually, this one is opcional)

You can install them using npm i <package-name> --save-dev on the root folder of your project (the --save-dev adds that package to the devDependencies of your package.json).

After that, create a .babelrc file on the root folder of your project with the following:

{
  "stage": 0,
  "env": {
    "development": {
      "plugins": ["react-transform"],
      "extra": {
        "react-transform": {
          "transforms": [{
            "transform": "react-transform-hmr",
            "imports": ["react"],
            "locals": ["module"]
          }, {
            "transform": "react-transform-catch-errors",
            "imports": ["react", "redbox-react"]
          }]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Presto! Everything is configured and ready to use.

VTEX Ignore

The VTEX Ignore it's a file that you can put on the root of your project, naming it .vtexignore.

This files tells watch which files he shouldn't send to the server. If no .vtexignore is found, it fallbacks to the .gitignore file.

Publish

To publish your VTEX app to VTEX Gallery, just type vtex publish. The app will be published under the vendor name.

Troubleshooting

Cannot resolve module 'react/lib/ReactMount'

If an error of this sort occurs:

ERROR in ./src/components/MyComponent.jsx
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'react/lib/ReactMount' in /home/username/projects/mycomponent/src/components
 @ ./src/components/MyComponent.jsx 1:350-381

Add ReactMount to your webpack.config externals:

externals: {
  'react/lib/ReactMount': 'ReactMount',
  'react': 'React'
},

License

MIT