CodeRoad Buidler - CLI

Command line interface for CodeRoad.

Pre-Requisites

• NodeJS
• Git

Install

Use CodeRoad CLI to set up and build a tutorial configuration file.

npm install -g @coderoad/cli

Create

Create templates files for building a new tutorial.

coderoad create

Templates for specific coding languages to come.

Build

Build the configuration file to be used by the extension to run the tutorial.

coderoad build

Defaults assume:

• a TUTORIAL.md markdown file (change with --markdown OTHER.md)
• a coderoad.yaml file (change with --yaml other.yaml)
• an output file of tutorial.json (change with --output other.json)

The configuration file is created by matching the level and step ids between the TUTORIAL.md and coderoad.yaml files against git commit messages with the same ids. For example:

TUTORIAL.md

# Tutorial Title

Tutorial description.

## L1 This is a level with id = 1

This level has two steps...

### L1S1 First step

The first step with id L1S1. The Step id should start with the level id.

### L1S2 The second step

The second step...

coderoad.yaml

---
levels:
  - id: L1
    config: {}
    steps:
      - id: L1S1
        setup:
          files:
            - package.json
          watchers:
            - package.json
            - node_modules/express
          commands:
            - npm install
        solution:
          files:
            - package.json
          commands:
            - npm install
      - id: L1S2
        setup:
          files:
            - src/server.js
          commands:
            - npm install
        solution:
          files:
            - src/server.js

... and the commit messages

commit 8e0e3a42ae565050181fdb68298114df21467a74 (HEAD -> v2, origin/v2)
Author: creator <author@email.com>
Date:   Sun May 3 16:16:01 2020 -0700

    L1S1Q setup step 1 for level 1

commit 9499611fc9b311040dcabaf2d98439fc0c356cc9
Author: creator <author@email.com>
Date:   Sun May 3 16:13:37 2020 -0700

    L1S2A checkout solution for level 1, step 2

commit c5c62041282579b495d3589b2eb1fdda2bcd7155
Author: creator <author@email.com>
Date:   Sun May 3 16:11:42 2020 -0700

    L1S2Q setup level 1, step 2

Note that the step L1S2 has two commits, one with the suffix Q and another one with A. The suffixes mean Question and Answer, respectively, and refer to the unit tests and the commit that makes them pass.

Steps defined as questions are required as they are meant to set the task to be executed by the student. The answer is optional and should be used when a commit must be loaded to verify the student's solution.

If there are multiple commits for a level or step, they are captured in order.