Add command to generate github actions

[Fuco1]

I think a really cool feature would be to generate the github actions test yaml. I never write it from scratch but copy-paste it from some other project, so if I could just eask generate github-workflow or something like that, it would be superb.

[jcs090218]

You should try eask create! Now it supports two things, see https://emacs-eask.github.io/Getting-Started/Commands-and-options/#-creating.

• eask create package
• eask create elpa

But these will generate the "whole" project and not a single file. And this (generate github-worflow) is indeed a great idea! 😁

[Fuco1]

Oh yea, the create templates are awesome! But I have many projects I'm porting from travis ci / Cask and there you want to just generate one or two files.

1. Migrate Cask to Eask
2. Add github workflow

these are the two actions I do most often.

Maybe for 2, there could be an option to create only a single file from the template?

[jcs090218]

I would like to support all of them. :)

I don't know if I should create another subcommand eask generate or make them all live under eask create. 🤔

[Fuco1]

For the cask to eask maybe that could be a flag on eask init --from-cask.

For the random files, I think eask generate is more discoverable than eask create. I see eask create as an analogue to "create react app" where it bootstraps the whole thing.

One tool in the JS world which is really cool and has all these concepts of generators, executors etc is https://nx.dev/getting-started/intro you should check it out, it's great for inspiration. I'm designing all our internal work tools after their philosophy.

[Fuco1]

On the other hand, there is a lot of eask commands now. Maybe some of them could be stuffed under different top-level commands.

For example pkg-file could go under generate as well.

[jcs090218]

Some changes I've made,

1. Move command pkg-file and autoloads under generate subcommand (feat(generate): Move pkg-file and autoloads commands under generate subcommand #142)
2. Introduce new option --from. You can pass in cask to generate an Eask-file from a Cask-file. (feat(cask): Add option to convert Cask to Eask #145)
3. New command eask generate workflow github generates the workflow file test.yml (feat(workflow): Add command to generate GHA workflow #146)

It has a lot of changes in Pt.3, so feel free to test it. :)

[Fuco1]

Is this the new from flag? It's really hard to spot it there. I think the common options should be in a separate section and the command specific options should be on the very top (over the proxy options).

[jcs090218]

I've opened a PR in #147, here is the result.

init [files..]

Initialize project to use Eask

Command Options:
      --from   build from an existing package                                                                                                                                                            [string]
      --files  files to use with `from` flag                                                                                                                                                              [array]

Proxy Options:
      --proxy        update proxy for HTTP and HTTPS to host                                                                                                                                             [string]
      --http-proxy   update proxy for HTTP to host                                                                                                                                                       [string]
      --https-proxy  update proxy for HTTPS to host                                                                                                                                                      [string]
      --no-proxy     set no-proxy to host                                                                                                                                                                [string]

Options:
      --version             show version number                                                                                                                                                         [boolean]
      --help                show usage instructions                                                                                                                                                     [boolean]
  -g, --global              change default workspace to ~/.emacs.d/                                                                                                                                     [boolean]
  -a, --all                 enable all flag                                                                                                                                                             [boolean]
  -q, --quick               start cleanly without loading the configuration files                                                                                                                       [boolean]
  -f, --force               enable force flag                                                                                                                                                           [boolean]
      --development, --dev  turn on development mode                                                                                                                                                    [boolean]
      --debug               turn on debug mode                                                                                                                                                          [boolean]
      --strict              report error instead of warnings                                                                                                                                            [boolean]
      --allow-error         continue the executioon even there is error reported                                                                                                                        [boolean]
      --insecure            allow insecure connection                                                                                                                                                   [boolean]
      --timestamps          log with timestamps                                                                                                                                                         [boolean]
      --log-level           log with level                                                                                                                                                              [boolean]
      --log-file, --lf      generate log files                                                                                                                                                          [boolean]
      --elapsed-time, --et  show elapsed time between each operation                                                                                                                                    [boolean]
      --no-color            disable color output                                                                                                                                                        [boolean]
  -v, --verbose             set verbosity from 0 to 4                                                                                                                                                    [number]

It's much nicer! :D

[jcs090218]

BTW, the two new commands are still new, so I'm looking forward to improve it! :)

• eask init --from=cask
• eask generate workflow github

[jcs090218]

This is implemented in #147; therefore, close this issue.

Feel free to open another issue(s) to improve these new commands! :D