mycmd VS laravel-websockets-example

Woah, this is very cool. I may try to adopt this.

I recently discovered, similar to the author of the post for this thread, that local variables are dynamically scoped.

I have been writing a lot more shell scripts lately, using a "library" [1] of sorts I've been writing. When I was debugging one of my scripts that uses mycmd, I discovered that I had failed to declare some of my variables local and they were leaking out to the global scope.

I had recently added functionality to call a set of functions on script exit, so I added something that would output the defined variables, in hopes that I could write something that will output them at the beginning and then the end and show the difference. I was surprised when variables defined in my dispatch function [2] for those at exit functions were showing up, even though they were definitely defined as local. It was then that I dug around and discovered the dynamic scope of variables.

I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish what I desire but exclude those variables from calling functions. I haven't been able to find an obvious way to see if the variable is coming from a calling function. I might be able to use techniques like you've pointed out in your linked post to add the tracing that I want. Still need to think more on this.

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[1] https://github.com/travisbhartwell/mycmd

I do the same thing, but slightly differently. https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example/...

I rather just write a bash script. It's the lowest common denominator. Make may not be installed by default in many places and it has some weird syntax quirks that make it annoying to use IMO.

Here's an example of how I like to do my "bash scripts that sorta work like make": https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example/... basically each function is a "command", so I do like "./utils start" or whatever.

This is an example repo I built a little while ago which outlines how I like to structure my Laravel projects for Docker: https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example

I wrote up my own version of what a docker stack looks like as an example repo a few months ago, I wanted to give Laravel Sail a spin but I found that it really wasn't that good; no path to transitioning to running on prod with that setup, no easy local HTTPS support, etc. Here it is: https://github.com/francislavoie/laravel-websockets-example