minidev

minidev is a reeaaaaallly limited public replacement for Shopify's internal dev tool.

Where most of dev is concerned with dev up, which provisions dependencies and various other things, there's a little bit of accessory function that's pretty easy to replicate, which is what's been done here.

install

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/burke/minidev/master/install.sh | bash

this writes minidev to ~/.local/minidev and sources it from your .profile

notes

minidev implements:

• dev cd
• dev clone
• Project-local commands (dev {build,style,console,server,test,etc.}).

minidev does not:

• Implement dev up at all
• have adequate help
• try very hard to prevent randomly crashing
• be good

Use minidev by adding source /path/to/minidev/dev.sh to your shell config.

Everything this does is far more limited than dev, including that it won't self-update.

If you want to use the same dotfiles at home and at work, you may enjoy something like:

if [ -f /opt/dev/dev.sh ]; then
  source /opt/dev/dev.sh
elif [ -f ~/src/github.com/burke/minidev/dev.sh ]; then
  source ~/src/github.com/burke/minidev/dev.sh
fi

You can config the default directory for dev clone and dev cd by calling dev config set default.github_root <path to directory>, otherwise it defaults to ~/src/github.com.

contributing

Are you ex-Shopify? Feel free to send patches to implement the thing the way you remember it working.

Are you current Shopify? There's really very little I could point to in dev itself that couldn't be made open source. You can pretty much feel free to copy code directly over here, just try not to introduce a whole lot of complexity.

In general we don't want minidev to do different things than dev, except to the extent necesary for simplicity or a bit less Shopify-specificness.