Laravel Envoy - Automate the boring stuff
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Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.
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Posts tagged with task runner
How to automate projects using composer scripts
On the Master Zend Framework blog Matthew Setter explains the scripts section of composer.json.
The scripts section of composer.json allows you to set up a range of commands which relate to your project, commands which call command-line executables and PHP callbacks.The commands can be named as you see fit, such as test, clean, deploy and so on. Or they can use the names of events which Composer fires during its execution process, such as post-root-package-install, pre-install-cmd, and post-package-update.
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to take you through examples which highlight both approaches
http://www.masterzendframework.com/series/tooling/composer/automation-scripts/
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Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for npm Scripts
I know what you’re thinking. WAT?! Didn’t Gulp just kill Grunt? Why can’t we just be content for a few minutes here in JavaScript land? I hear ya, but… I’ve found Gulp and Grunt to be unnecessary abstractions. npm scripts are plenty powerful and often easier to live with.https://medium.com/@housecor/why-i-left-gulp-and-grunt-for-npm-scripts-3d6853dd22b8
Run tasks locally with Envoy
Envoy is an easy to use task runner created by master artisan Taylor Otwell. It offers a simple blade-like syntax to create tasks. If you're not familiar with it, you can watch this free Laracasts-video. Chris Fidao recently showed, in his excellent Servers For Hackers newsletter, how you can create a light version of Capistrano with Envoy.
Up until a few hours ago a task could only run via ssh. But now that this pull request has been merged, you can also use envoy to locally run commands.
