Chatty WebViews CLI
Description
Chatty Webviews' CLI allows you to release over-the-air updates to users with just a few commands. You can easily distribute new application versions to your users without going through Google's Play Store or Apple's AppStore. Using this CLI is especially helpful when you want to release critical security fixes or other application updates.
Infrastructure setup
As the Chatty Webviews CLI is fully free and open source, in order to use it, you should set up your own Firebase account for storing the metadata and content of new application releases. After setting up a Firebase account, be sure to define the following environment variables on your machine or CI/CD pipeline for the CLI:
export FIREBASE_API_KEY="<your_api_key>"
export FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN="<your_auth_domain>"
export FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID="<your_project_id>"
export FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET="<your_storage_bucket>"
export FIREBASE_APP_ID="<your_app_id>"The exact variable values could be easily found by going into your Firebase account's Project settings and creating a new web app using the Add app button.
After that, if you haven't already, you should enable the Authentication, Firestore Database, and Storage services by following the exact steps in Firebase.
The last bit of configuring the necessary infrastructure is deploying the Chatty Webviews backend by following its README.
Usage
$ npm install -g @chatty-webviews/cli
$ chatty COMMAND
running command...
$ chatty (--version)
@chatty-webviews/cli/0.0.1 darwin-arm64 node-v16.16.0
$ chatty --help [COMMAND]
USAGE
$ chatty COMMAND
...Commands
chatty ci release
Relase a new version of a ChattyWebViews application or module from a CI/CD environment by passing all the required parameters
USAGE
$ chatty ci release --version <value> [--name <value>] [--modules <value>]
FLAGS
--modules=<value>... Release only a set of modules by their names as specified in the `chatty-webviews.json` file.
--name=<value> Release name. Defaults to '' if not provided.
--version=<value> (required) Release version.
DESCRIPTION
Relase a new version of a ChattyWebViews application or module from a CI/CD environment by passing all the required
parameters
EXAMPLES
$ chatty ci release --version 12.1
$ chatty ci release --version 12.1 --name 'test release'
$ chatty ci release --version 12.1 --name 'test release' --modules moduleA moduleB
chatty help [COMMANDS]
Display help for chatty.
USAGE
$ chatty help [COMMANDS] [-n]
ARGUMENTS
COMMANDS Command to show help for.
FLAGS
-n, --nested-commands Include all nested commands in the output.
DESCRIPTION
Display help for chatty.
See code: @oclif/plugin-help
chatty init
Initialize the configurations for a ChattyWebViews application
USAGE
$ chatty init
DESCRIPTION
Initialize the configurations for a ChattyWebViews application
EXAMPLES
$ chatty init
See code: dist/commands/init/index.ts
chatty release
Relase a new version of a ChattyWebViews application or module
USAGE
$ chatty release
DESCRIPTION
Relase a new version of a ChattyWebViews application or module
EXAMPLES
$ chatty release
See code: dist/commands/release/index.ts