foxx-cli

CLI for managing and developing ArangoDB Foxx services.

foxx-cli is a standalone tool for the shell that can be used to talk to ArangoDB servers to manage Foxx services.

To learn more about Foxx, see the official ArangoDB Foxx documentation.

⚠️ NOTE: foxx-cli is not yet ready for production use. This is a development release. Please come back later. For details see the project roadmap. ⚠️

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Special files
  • manifest.json
  • foxxignore
  • foxxrc
• Contribute
• License

Install

foxx-cli runs on Node.js and can be installed with yarn:

yarn global add foxx-cli

Or with npm:

npm install --global foxx-cli

Note: using yarn you can also run foxx-cli from your project's devDependencies:

yarn add --dev foxx-cli
yarn foxx help

If you're using a recent version of npm you can also use npx:

npx -p foxx-cli foxx help

Usage

After you've installed foxx-cli, you should be able to use the foxx program. You can learn more about the different commands foxx supports by using the --help flag.

foxx --help

You can also use the --help flag with commands to learn more about them, e.g.:

foxx install --help # Help for the "install" command

foxx server --help # Help for the "server" command

foxx server list --help # Subcommands are supported, too

Special files

manifest.json

The manifest.json or manifest file contains a service's meta-information. For more information on the manifest format, see the official ArangoDB documentation.

The directory containing a service's manifest.json file is called the root directory of the service.

foxxignore

If you want to exclude files from the service bundle that will uploaded to ArangoDB you can create a file called .foxxignore in the root directory of your service. Each line should specify one pattern you wish to ignore:

• Patterns starting with ! will be treated as an explicit whitelist. Paths matching these patterns will not be ignored even if they would match any of the other patterns.

  Example: !index.js will override any pattern matching a file called index.js.

• Patterns starting with / will only match paths relative to the service's root directory.

  Example: /package.json will not match node_modules/joi/package.json.

• Patterns ending with / will match a directory and any files inside of it.

  Example: node_modules/ will exclude all node_modules directories and all of their contents.

• A single * (glob) will match zero or more characters (even dots) in a file or directory name.

  Example: .* will match any files and directories with a name starting with a dot.

• A double ** (globstar) will match zero or more levels of nesting.

  Example: hello/**/world will match hello/world, hello/foo/world, hello/foo/bar/world, and so on.

• Patterns starting with # are considered comments and will be ignored.

For more details on the pattern matching behaviour, see the documentation of the minimatch module (with the dot flag enabled).

If no .foxxignore file is present in the service's root directory the following patterns will be ignored automatically: .git/, .svn/, .hg/, *.swp, .DS_Store.

Should you need to include files that match these patterns for some reason, you can override this list by creating an empty .foxxignore file.

You can also create a .foxxignore file in the current directory using the ignore command:

foxx ignore # creates a file pre-populated with the defaults

foxx ignore --force # creates an empty file

To add individual patterns to the .foxxignore file just pass them as additional arguments:

foxx ignore .git/ .svn/ # you can pass multiple patterns at once

foxx ignore '*.swp' # make sure to escape special characters

foxxrc

If you define servers using the server commands, a .foxxrc file will be created in your $HOME directory, which is typically one of the following paths:

• /home/$USER on Linux

• /Users/$USER on macOS

• C:\Users\$USER on Windows

This file contains sections for each server which may contain server credentials should you decide to save them.

Contribute

Feel free to dive in! Open an issue or submit PRs.

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License

The Apache License, Version 2.0. For more information, see the accompanying LICENSE file.