Using services in local development

[trumbitta]

Today I needed to use the AJAX proxy service in my local development environment, but couldn't figure out how :)

I think it'd be nice to have a straightforward way for installing, or just using, superstatic-* services locally.

[scottcorgan]

We've been thinking through this for quite some in order to make the most elegant solution.

How do you feel about installing services locally through something like "superstatic install" or "divshot install" to install the services? Once installed, superstatic/divshot would know they're available and make them available.

[trumbitta]

Sounds perfect 👍

Also, maybe a slight variation like:

$ [divshot | superstatic] service install

could lead to other useful subcommands like:

$ [divshot | superstatic] service [list | search | info]

[scottcorgan]

@trumbitta that's a very good suggestion.

@mbleigh what are your thoughts?

[scottcorgan]

Also, to keep consistent with the Divshot cli, I'm thinking: superstatic services:install [name], etc.

[mbleigh]

How would that work under the covers? Local install or global?

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[scottcorgan]

@mbleigh my though is that it's a global install into the .divshot folder in the home directory.

Another idea is that the user and use the -g flag or something like an --local flag in order to choose where it's locaed

(cc @trumbitta)

Thoughts?

[scottcorgan]

We've decided to read your superstatic.json/divshot.json file and search for superstatic services. If available, we'll check to see if you have them installed globally or locally. If you don't, then we'll automatically install them for you on your next server start.

This was the easiest and clearest way to solve this problem and keep Superstatic simple.

This feature will be included in Superstatic 2.1 released next week.

[trumbitta]

🚀

[scottcorgan]

Closed by 9c479e8.

Will publish today or tomorrow to NPM.