From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
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Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#2Heroku did the same
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#3Interesting. TIL about the Open CLI framework that they all seem to be moving to: https://oclif.io/
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#4The CLI is nice, but developing Shopify apps+themes is still a wild west.
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#5Heroku did the same
more background info
https://blog.herokuapp.com/evolution-of-heroku-cli-2008-2017 Their version 6, started with Ruby, then go/node, then pure node.
https://github.com/heroku/cli "This is the next generation Node-based Heroku CLI. The goals of this project were to make plugins more flexible, remove Ruby as a runtime dependency, and make the CLI faster. [...] It has identical functionality to the old Ruby CLI."
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#6Heroku did the same
If only Heroku had any customers remaining to use it
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#7Heroku did the same
more background info https://blog.herokuapp.com/evolution-of-heroku-cli-2008-2017 Their version 6, started with Ruby, then go/node, then pure node. https://github.com/heroku/cli "This is the next generation Node-based Heroku CLI. The goals of this project were to make plugins more flexible, remove Ruby as a runtime dependency, and make the CLI faster. [...] It has identical functionality to the old Ruby CLI."
The original article has no relation to Heroku, that's why the downvote.
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#8Interesting. TIL about the Open CLI framework that they all seem to be moving to: https://oclif.io/
CAC also quite good: https://github.com/cacjs/cac. Used by Vite and many others.
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#9I'm begging you, just use a language that compiles to a single binary. It can self update in place, be easily installed on developer machines and CI pipelines without requiring a whole additional toolchain in every container. Google, Heroku, AWS, Shopify all do and it's an awful developer experience.
Re: From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
#10Good luck! I've found any cli with any kind of runtime dependency other than maybe sh eventually becomes difficult to run. I think they all tend to end up getting packaged with an isolated copy (node/ruby/python) of whatever runtime they need.