SpaceDrive CLI Tool

[koalazub]

Hey! I had a quick glance to see if this was mentioned, but haven't had such luck finding anything on the topic.

I sometimes lean into using a VPS and don't have a GUI enabled. I can see this being immensely useful for some note taking apps and would like to know if there's been any talk of having a CLI for a frontend that we might be able to interact with as a daily driver?

Use case: I work with an iPad, a VPS with no GUI, NixOS on a PC and a MacBook and require files to be sent between services using a GUI and not.

Benefits: Having just a backend with the CLI attached to the front could be a good smoke detector to observe that things are going as planned. This could help with UI development as a means of being sure that invocations of all calls act as they should before you deal with UI as its own beast.

Foreseeable issues if implementing: Trying to auth via CLI could be problematic. So maybe following some of the other CLI tools for auth is an avenue that could be worth pursuing:

# rough examples of what interacting with it could look like

# authorise for sync
space auth login

# options for logging in:
# - link to URL login
# - login via SSH
# - login via username/pwd

# sync nodes
space sync nodes

# sync directory
space sync

Having to instead sync things automatically using SpaceDrive vs git would be amazing as some projects are just small/ephemeral and I'm just looking to jot things down and look at them at another device down the track.

You could potentially follow other CLI tools such as GitHub or rclone and have quick commands to invoke the same actions as the GUI tool you have.

That being said, it would be a bit more work, so I can understand if it's not a consideration as yet(or ever).These are just spitball ideas and I hope that you found them to be worth considering/reading

Either way, I'm excited as for this project to kick off!

[utkubakir]

Yup, we will have CLI support, it's under apps already and it's something we plan to support pretty soon (after release).

[koalazub]

Oh that's brilliant. Thanks for the response!