Support for specifying developer options

[tripodsan]

See better options mentioned here: #14 (comment)

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with more and more options to configure the various commands, it might make sense to support reading the options and flags from a config file.

suggest:

use the helix-config.yaml and add the configuration options:

example

contentRepo: https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/reactor-user-docs

loglevel: info
build:
  - target: .hlx/build
  - files: src/*.htl
  - cache: true
  - minify: false

server:
  # ??? move this here?
  contentRepo: https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/reactor-user-docs
  port: 3000,
  browser: false
  
deploy:
  auto: false,
  apikey: ${WSK_AUTH}
  apihost: runtime.adobe.io
  namepsace: ${WSK_NAMESPACE}
  loghost: example.loggly.com
  logkey: ${HLX_LOGKEY}
  target: .hlx/build # maybe reuse build.target
  docker: nodejs8:latest
  default:
    flags: 'green'

[stefan-guggisberg]

related issue: Developer Experience

as hlx gets more and more configuration options, it should provide sensible defaults for all options. the following should be supported without further configuration:

setup a new project:

mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
vi README.md
mkdir src
vi src/default.htl
hlx up

[tripodsan]

@stefan-guggisberg yes, the config options above listed in the config file are the defaults.

minimal example:

$ hlx init my-project
+ created my-project
+ created README.md with welcome message
+ created src/html.htl with minimal example
+ created package.json with sensible defaults and required dependencies
+ created helix-config.yaml for your convenience.
+ ran 'npm install' in the background - no errors or warnings encountered.
Init completed. cd to my-project and run 'hlx up' to start the fun
$ cd my-project
$ hlx up

[trieloff]

Tracked in adobe/helix-shared#11

[tripodsan]

no. this is rather meant for local development configuration, like server port etc.
I would like to have this in in the config instead of using ENVs or another config.

[tripodsan]

Suggestion:

Use a config object in package.json, see https://github.com/yargs/yargs/blob/HEAD/docs/api.md#pkgconfkey-cwd:

{
  "name": "helix-demo",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Helix Example Project",

  "hlx": {
    "port": 3003,
    "open": false,
    "dirty": true,
    "log-level": "debug"
  }

}