Overview
pos-cli is a command line tool developed to allow you to easily deploy your configuration files and assets to platformOS. It expects you to follow a certain file structure to correctly communicate with the platformOS API. You do not have to use it, however, it is highly recommended that you do. It is a CLI tool, hence you are expected to have basic knowledge in working with a command line interface like Terminal.
If you have any feature requests, feedback, or problems, please head over to the
issues page and let us know.
Run all commands in the project root directory - one level above the
app or
modules directory.
Requirements
pos-cli requires nodejs >= v10 to work properly.
Read more on how to install node on your platform.
Installation and update
If your node is installed for all users you might need to use
sudo to install npm packages globally:
sudo npm install -g @platformos/pos-cli
If you are using nvm or have node installed on your account, you can omit that:
npm install -g @platformos/pos-cli
Usage
Adding environments and authenticating
For authentication, you'll need your
Partner Portal account credentials.
See this
guide if you don't have a Partner Portal account yet.
To add your environment to a config file, run the
env add command, and authenticate with your
Partner Portal credentials:
pos-cli env add [environment] --email [your email] --url [your application url]
Example:
pos-cli env add staging --email myemail@example.com --url https://example.com
Configuration for environments is in the
.pos file.
Syncing changes
pos-cli sync [environment]
Example:
pos-cli sync staging
Enables sync mode - immediately pushes changes made to the file system to the proper environment. It feels like working on localhost. Because changes are immediate, it is dangerous to use sync on production, on a live application - it is recommended to use it only for staging.
Livereloading changes
Add
--livereload (
-l) to your sync command to run the
LiveReload server in the background.
You need to install the LiveReload browser extension for it to refresh your browser on file changes.
pos-cli sync [environment] -l
Automatically opening the browser
If you add
--open (
-o) to the sync command, it will open your Instance in the default browser.
pos-cli sync [environment] -o
Concurrency
By default, the
sync command uses 3 concurrent connections to our server when syncing resources and assets. You can adjust it for your connection.
pos-cli sync [environment] -c 10
Deploying changes
pos-cli deploy [environment]
Example:
pos-cli deploy staging
Deploys all changes. It is recommended to first deploy to
staging, test, and only then trigger a deploy to production. Effectively, deploy creates a zip file containing all your files and sends it to the API. It is then processed in the background. We store each zip file to allow you to roll back in case something goes wrong.
To skip the audit during deploy, set the environmental variable
CI to
true.
Code audit
pos-cli audit
Example:
pos-cli audit
Runs statical analysis on files in your current application directory.
Reading logs
Access errors and logs that you or the system logs for you using the
logs command. Read more on
how to create logs.
pos-cli logs [environment]
From now on, as long as your
logs command is running, logs will appear here. Errors will trigger system notifications if your operating system supports them.
You can filter logs by type using the
--filter argument.
pos-cli logs [environment] --filter type
Example:
pos-cli logs staging --filter debug
Logs V2
LOGS
examples:
pos-cli logsv2 search stg --size 5 --from 0
pos-cli logsv2 search stg --sql "select * from logs" --json | jq
pos-cli logsv2 search stg --sql "select message,type from logs" --json | jq
pos-cli logsv2 search stg --sql "select * from logs where str_match(message, 'com')" --start_time 1694694303000000 --size 5 | jq
ALERTS
examples:
pos-cli logsv2 alerts list stg # list alerts
pos-cli logsv2 alerts add stg --url SLACK_URL --name descriptive-alert-title-slack-02 --column message --operator Contains --keyword 'this is fine' --channel gcp-alerts
pos-cli logsv2 alerts list stg
pos-cli logsv2 alerts trigger stg --name descriptive-alert-title-slack-02
ROADMAP
Listing environments
If you forgot what your environments are called or the URL that corresponds to any name, use:
pos-cli env list
Initializing the directory structure
If you need to create a new project from scratch you can initialize the directory structure using:
pos-cli init --url mdyd-dev/directory-structure --branch master
Default URL:
mdyd-dev/directory-structure
Default branch:
master
The
init command supports all formats supported by
degit, as it is used as an engine underneath.
It downloads the directory structure from a given git repository and extracts it in your current directory.
Managing constants
Add constant named
API_KEY with value
abc123 on
dev environment:
pos-cli constants set --name API_KEY --value abc123 dev
Remove constant
API_KEY on
staging environment:
pos-cli constants unset --name API_KEY staging
List defined constants without exposing their values on
production environment:
pos-cli constants list production
SECRETTOKEN "XX..."
TEMP_TOKEN "XX..."
USE_SEARCH_INDEX "tr..."
List defined constants showing their values on
production environment:
SAFE=1 pos-cli constants list production
SECRETTOKEN "XXXXXXX"
TEMP_TOKEN "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
USE_SEARCH_INDEX "true"
Modules
List
Lists all modules installed through the Partners Portal on a given environment.
This command will not list modules that you deployed via the
modules/ directory.
pos-cli modules list [environment]
Initialize
Create a new module based on module starter repository.
pos-cli modules init <module name>
Installation
You can install modules that are published in modules marketplace by adding them to
app/pos-modules.json. To make that you can use
pos-cli modules install
pos-cli modules install <env> [module name]
Remove
Removes a module from your application.
pos-cli modules remove [environment] <module name>
module templates
Templates provide automatic processing for easier module configuration. For example, upon installing a module, it is possible to specify URIs under which pages will be available after the module has been installed. This works both in sync and deploy mode.
Markup is the commonly used ERB/EJS stye:
<%= =%> there is no logic supported, the only available filter is
& which will unescape the value provided by the user (by default they are all escaped).
Values for variables have to be provided in the root module directory
template-values.json, but you can set the location of the configuration file using the
TEMPLATE_VALUES_FILE_PATH variable.
For example, by executing
TEMPLATE_VALUES_FILE_PATH=templates/values.json pos-cli deploy staging the
templates/values.json file will be used as values for templates.
Directory structure with
template-values.json:
```shell
modules
└──admincms
├── template-values.json
├── private
│ └── graphql
│ ├── get_models.graphql
│ └── get_pages.graphql
└── public
└── views
└── pages
└── admin.liquid
```
Example
A page with this code
```yaml
---
slug: <%= &desired
location =%>
---
This is using templates <%= what =%> !
```
and a template-values.json
```json
{
"desiredlocation": "index",
"what": "magic"
}
```
will turn into this during deploy/sync:
```yaml
---
slug: index
---
This is using templates magic!
```
Migrations
Migrations are files that contain Liquid code (including GraphQL) that you want to run and have a trace of what exactly has been run.
This is very helpful if you want to execute the same code on multiple environments after the code has been deployed. For example, seeding initial data.
Read more about migrations in our documentation:
- https://documentation.platformos.com/developer-guide/data-import-export/migrating-data
- https://documentation.platformos.com/use-cases/e-commerce/seeding-configuration-data
List
Lists migrations deployed to the server and their current status.
pos-cli migrations list [environment] [name]
Generate
Generates new migration with the name you provided. It will be prepended with a timestamp so if you create more than one, they will be run in the order you intended.
Migrations run automatically on deploy.
pos-cli migrations generate [environment] [name]
Run
You can run a migration manually using the
run command. You must first sync the migration file to the environment.
The name of the migration is the filename without the extension, or just the timestamp.
pos-cli migrations run [environment] [name]
Example:
pos-cli migrations run staging 20190715132951_update_admin_password
Data
Export
Exports data from the environment to a given file in JSON format.
Read more about
exporting data with the CLI, REST API and GraphQL in our documentation.
pos-cli data export staging --path=data.json
Import
Imports data from a given JSON file with proper data structure.
Read more about
importing data with the CLI, REST API and GraphQL in our documentation.
pos-cli data import staging --path=data.json
Clean (only staging)
Cleans data on an Instance. Keep in mind that this only removes rows of data, not the structure definition.
For example, if you have a model schema
car and there are 10 entries of type
car, those will be deleted, but the model schema
car will remain intact.
This is useful for testing your imports/exports or resetting your database to a pristine state between tests.
This operation is irreversible.
pos-cli will ask you twice if you are sure you want to do it.
pos-cli data clean staging
Admin - Graphical interface
To start the http server locally that will serve the GUI use:
pos-cli gui serve [environment]
Example:
pos-cli gui serve staging
To open platformOS Admin go to
http://localhost:3333
Opening Admin automatically
If you want to open platformOS Admin as soon as
gui serve is running, add
--open (
-o) as your argument.
pos-cli gui serve [environment] -o
GraphiQL Browser
To explore your Instance database using GraphQL open
http://localhost:3333/gui/graphql in your web browser.
In the right sidebar there is a schema documentation should you need it.
Liquid evaluator
To open a page where you can experiment with Liquid and evaluate it on your Instance, open
http://localhost:3333/gui/liquid in your browser.
Generators
In order to quickly create files you can use generators. They are provided by modules.
For example
core module provide
command generator. You can use it like this:
pos-cli generate modules/core/generators/command users/create
You can also display help for generator with this command:
pos-cli generate modules/core/generators/command --generator-help
Development
pos-cli gui serve (graphiql) has its own build process. You will find it in
gui/editor/graphql.
Develop install dependencies (
npm ci) and start development mode (
npm start).
After your work is done, build production assets (
npm run build) and commit changes to the repository.
