kcd-scripts 🛠📦

CLI toolbox for common scripts for my projects

The problem

I do a bunch of open source and want to make it easier to maintain so many projects.

This solution

This is a CLI that abstracts away all configuration for my open source projects for linting, testing, building, and more.

Installation
Usage
- Overriding Config
- Flow support
Inspiration
Other Solutions
Contributors
LICENSE

Installation

This module is distributed via npm which is bundled with node and should be installed as one of your project's devDependencies:

npm install --save-dev kcd-scripts

Usage

This is a CLI and exposes a bin called kcd-scripts. I don't really plan on documenting or testing it super duper well because it's really specific to my needs. You'll find all available scripts in src/scripts.

This project actually dogfoods itself. If you look in the package.json, you'll find scripts with node src {scriptName}. This serves as an example of some of the things you can do with kcd-scripts.

Overriding Config

Unlike react-scripts, kcd-scripts allows you to specify your own configuration for things and have that plug directly into the way things work with kcd-scripts. There are various ways that it works, but basically if you want to have your own config for something, just add the configuration and kcd-scripts will use that instead of it's own internal config. In addition, kcd-scripts exposes its configuration so you can use it and override only the parts of the config you need to.

This can be a very helpful way to make editor integration work for tools like ESLint which require project-based ESLint configuration to be present to work.

So, if we were to do this for ESLint, you could create an .eslintrc with the contents of:

{"extends": "./node_modules/kcd-scripts/eslint.js"}

Note: for now, you'll have to include an .eslintignore in your project until this eslint issue is resolved.

Or, for babel, a .babelrc with:

{"presets": ["kcd-scripts/babel"]}

Or, for jest:

const {jest: jestConfig} = require('kcd-scripts/config')
module.exports = Object.assign(jestConfig, {
  // your overrides here

  // for test written in Typescript, add:
  transform: {
    '\\.(ts|tsx)$': '<rootDir>/node_modules/ts-jest/preprocessor.js',
  },
})

Note: kcd-scripts intentionally does not merge things for you when you start configuring things to make it less magical and more straightforward. Extending can take place on your terms. I think this is actually a great way to do this.

Flow support

If the flow-bin is a dependency on the project the @babel/preset-flow will automatically get loaded when you use the default babel config that comes with kcd-scripts. If you customised your .babelrc-file you might need to manually add @babel/preset-flow to the presets-section.

Inspiration

This is inspired by react-scripts.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these people (emoji key):

_{Kent C. Dodds} 💻 📖 🚇 ⚠️	_{Suhas Karanth} 💻 🐛 ⚠️	_{Matt Parrish} 💻 ⚠️	_Mateus 💻 ⚠️	_{Macklin Underdown} 💻 ⚠️	_{stereobooster} 💻 ⚠️	_{Dony Sukardi} 🐛 💻
_{Alexander Nanberg} 💻	_{Alex Liang} 💻	_{Jeff Detmer} 💻	_{Alex Zherdev} 💻	_{Adam Harrington} 💻 ⚠️	_{Adrià Fontcuberta} 💻	_{Eric Berry} 🔍
_{Jared Schaab} 💻 ⚠️	_Bitcollage 💻	_{Michaël De Boey} 💻	_{Weyert de Boer} 💻