developer is a service or self-hosted Centralized Source Processor.
A Source Processor handles the totality of transformations that are required in order to have the source code runtime-ready.
Such transformations, in a NodeJS for web context, consist of linting, testing, transpilation, tree-shaking and other optimizations, bundling. In a C++ for embedded use context, it may consist only in a targeted compilation.
The developer-server registers configurations which receive messages from the developer-client, the CLI.
The messages can be simple command calls defined in the configuration, such as build, or more complex ones, based on custom scripts.
Given a command processed by the server, if there is any output, such as built files, the server will speak with the client to receive the files on the local machine, and place them accordingly, based on the configuration.
Usage: developer <command>
Options:
-v, --version output the version number
-h, --help display help for command
Commands:
status show the developer status
machine [options] set a name for the machine
login [options] log into a developer server
logout [options] log out of a developer server
start [options] start the developer server connection
stop [options] stop the developer server connection
register [options] [path] register a space for the developer server, given a path or the current directory
deregister [options] [path] deregister a space for the developer server, given a path or the current directory
describe [options] <entity> <name> describes an entity ('server', 'connection', 'space') given the name
open [connection] opens the server in browser for a given connection (by name or number);
defaults to the first connection, if any
lint [options] [space] lint a registered space or the current directory space
test [options] [space] test a registered space or the current directory space
preview [options] [space] preview elements and scenarios for a registered space or the current directory space
watch [options] [space] watch for changes a registered space or the current directory space
build [options] [space] build a registered space or the current directory space
run [options] <command> [space] run a named-command in a registered space or the current directory space
@plurid/developer-cli • the Command-Line Interface client
@plurid/developer-server • the server application