1build is an automation tool that arms you with the convenience to configure project-local command line aliases – and then run the commands quickly and easily. It is particularly helpful when you deal with multiple projects and switch between them all the time. It is often the fact that different projects use different build tools and have different environment requirements – and then switching from one project to another is becoming increasingly cumbersome. That is where 1build comes into play.

With 1build you can create simple and easily memorable command aliases for commonly used project commands such as build, test, run or anything else. These aliases will have a project-local scope which means that they will be accessible only within the project directory. This way you can unify all your projects to build with the same simple command disregarding of what build tool they use. It will remove the hassle of remembering all those commands improving the mental focus for the things that actually matter.

Install

1. Download and unzip latest release for your OS.
2. Move the 1build executable to your $PATH.

Usage

Configuration

• Create 1build.yaml configuration file by

  1build init --name <your_project_name>

• Edit file according to project command list, Example of 1build.yaml for node project:

  project: Sample JVM Project Name
  commands:
    - build: npm run build
    - test: npm run test

Running 1build for the above sample project:

• building the project

  1build build

• fix the coding guidelines lint and run tests (executing more than one commands at once)

  1build lint test

Set new or update existing configuration

• Set new command configuration for lint to "eslint server.js"

  1build set lint "eslint server.js"

Remove/Unset existing configuration

• Unset command configuration for lint

  1build unset lint

• To unset multiple commands at once

  1build unset lint test build

Using before and after commands

Consider that your project requires some environment variables to set before running any commands and you want to clean up those after running commands. It is a headache to always remember to set those environment variables. What you want is to set env variables automatically when you run the command in the project and remove those when the command is complete. Another example – a project requires Docker to be up and running or you need to clean up the database after running a test harness.

This is where before & after commands are useful. These commands are both optional –  you can use one of them, both or neither.

Examples:

1. Setting env variables and cleaning those up

   project: Sample JVM Project Name
   before: export VARNAME="my value"
   after: unset VARNAME
   commands:
     - build: npm run build

2. Ensure that Docker is up and running

   project: Containerized Project
   before: ./docker_run.sh
   commands:
     - build: npm run build

3. Clean up database after some commands

   project: Containerized Project
   after: ./clean_database.sh
   commands:
    - build: npm run build

See 1build --help for command usages.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use Semantic Versioning for all our releases. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project in each release will be documented in CHANGELOG.md.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Authors

• Gopinath Langote - Initial work & Maintainer – Github –Twitter
• Alexander Lukianchuk - Maintainer – Github – Twitter

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Sponsors