mh-ssg VS execa

This week, I've published my 1st package on npm - mh-ssg - a static site generator CLI.

I also worked on another project, mh-ssg, and added tests to this project as well. I created unit tests for a function called processFolder(). This function accepts an input folder path, output folder path and stylesheet URL. I created two unit tests, one which tests when a valid input folder containing files is passed to the function and one which tests when a non-existent folder is passed to the function. The function logs a message to the console depending on how many files are saved in the output folder, so the tests I wrote tested for these console logs.

For this lab, I picked Jest as the testing tool for mh-ssg. This is a popular Javascript testing framework thanks to its simplicity and ease of usage.

To maintain the quality of source code, I added a formatter and a linter for my project.

Throughout the previous week, I was exploring Docusaurus and found that they have a feature to support static files. I find this feature very useful for any static site generator since images, favicons, stylesheets, etc. are very common parts of a webpage. Therefore, I decided to add this feature in my tool.

As new features are added to the tool, I realized that the logic is not clear anymore and some parts were duplicated, making it inefficient and hard to maintain. This time, I decided to focus on removing those duplications by moving the statements to the appropriate place and extracting function for reusability. All the refactoring was done through a single commit with the help of git rebase.

Luke also implemented the same feature for my project. His code in general was good but I suggested some changes including separating modules and combining functions to remove code duplicates.

After looking through my classmates' projects, I decided to work on Minh Hang's static site generator and filed an issue to her repo.

In the last update, my friend - Dustin - helped to add Markdown as a valid input for my tool. Markdown syntaxes are different from HTML syntaxes and he has worked on converting some of them. This time I decided to add two more:

I've been sending a lot of pull requests but this was actually my first time receiving one 😄 and Dustin was my first contributor. He also proposed to add Markdown support for my tool and to parse all the headings, bold, italics and link from markdown into the corresponding HTML tags. I scanned through the pull request and found some minor issues, including missing new feature in documentation and missing the handling of the output file name. We also had different opinions about the implementation of .txt file and .md file. However after discussion, we came to agreement and I approved his changes.

I’m partial to Sindre Sorhus’ execa, this document outlines the differences:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa/blob/main/docs/scripts...

Yeah, or over https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa?

And given the existence of those npm packages, is there any aspect of Bun Shell that required it to be built into the Bun runtime instead of published to npm?

For something which works across all JS runtimes (Deno, Node) and achieves basically the same, check out the popular JS library Execa[1]. Works like a charm!

[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/execa

To simplify the process of running the commands, I will use execa - abstraction library on top of Node.js child_process methods.

Hello, this is an interesting problem. At https://stacktape.com (where we're creating a developer-friendly abstraction of AWS), we're recommending 2 options: - use a "deployment script" (basically a custom-resource lambda function that runs during the CloudFormation deployment). You can install prisma into it, and then execute the migration command from the lambda function using something like execa, if you're using Javascript/Typescript. You can easily do this with Stacktape anytime. - use a bastion (EC2) instance (deployed to the the VPC where your RDS db is). The cheapest instances cost ~4.5$/month, so it shoudln't be too costly. You can also securely connect to it using EC2 instance connect, that leverages IAM to grant permissions to connect to it. (this is something we're currently implementing as Stacktape, and will be ready in ~2 weeks).

For FE, it’s usually Cypress or Playwright; for BE, it’s to run a server and start sending requests; for CLI, I like the tool called execa.

Since version 6 execa is pure ES module. An attempt to import a package into NestJS project results in an error:

Essentially when I run this from my shell I get a listing of keymaps configured for vim. However, when I run it from a program without a PTY or TTY (e.g., via Rust's Command or Node's execa) I get an exit code of 0 and no output.