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Cake: Developing Addins Part 3

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Cake: Developing Addins Part 3

Back with another installment of my thought process. I have been thinking a little more about it before I get started on the actual addin, that I realized that I could put together a quick and dirty solution. I am going to use the Cake.Npm addin to do it. So here goes.

The first step would be to include the Cake.Npm in the Cake file for this blog.

#addin nuget:?package=Cake.Npm

With that out of the way, something that I have been considering is that I do not want the user to have to make sure that the netlify-cli is already installed. Yes, Node and NPM will need to be installed, but I can’t control that. Another item that I would like for the future addin is to have it use a local version of netlify-cli. To accomplish this, I am going to create a task that installs netlify-cli locally.

Task("Install-Netlify-Cli")
    .Does(()=> {
        Npm.Install(settings=>settings.Package("netlify-cli"));
    });

Now that I have the netlify-cli being installed, I will need to create a new Deploy task that will be the one that uses the cli. I will use the Npm.RunScript command that is part of Cake.Npm to execute the local netlify-cli and pass the arguments directly to it right in the Cake task. So I have been coding this as I am blogging and to say the least, it was a failure. I create a package.json to hold my wonderful deploy command and tried to pass the arguments as I needed.

Task("Netlify-Deploy")
    .IsDependentOn("Install-Netlify-Cli")
    .IsDependentOn("Build")
    .Does(() => {
        var token = EnvironmentVariable("NETLIFY_PHILLIPSJ");
        var siteId = EnvironmentVariable("NETLIFY_SITEID");
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(token)) {
            throw new Exception("Could not get NETLIFY_PHILLIPSJ environment variable");
        }
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(siteId)) {
            throw new Exception("Could not get NETLIFY_SITEID environment variable");
        }
        Npm.RunScript("deploy", settings => settings.WithArgument(string.Format("-s {0}", siteId)).WithArgument(string.Format("-t {0}", token)));
    });

Like I stated above this was a failure of an experiment. It is very close, but it just didn’t work. I will go ahead with actually creating an actual addin. All of the fail can be found in the repo. I will not delete any of it.

Thanks for reading,

Jamie

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