Research Branching Model: CLI

[StuffByLiang]

Requirements:

Allow the user to switch to various branches of the tutorial, with each branch representing it's own step/part of the tutorial. Do this smoothly, so that a hot reload of the app will immediately show the changes in the app.

Idea:

• make a react-native tutorial CLI in node.js/javascript that can switch the github branch of the current repo to various steps of the project.

Concerns

• Each step will have different dependencies, when switching branches, we must insure that npm install is called
• Must build a cross-platform compatible cli

Libraries that may assist

• React Native cli: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/tree/master/packages/cli - can take inspiration from this project
• Commander: https://github.com/tj/commander.js/ - node.js cli tool
• Inquirer.js: https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js/ - node.js cli user interface
• Chalk: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk - used to colourize output
• Simple Git: https://github.com/steveukx/git-js - lightweight git commands in node.js

Branch

https://github.com/MLH-Fellowship/react-native-tutorial/tree/setup-branch-cli

Screenshots

questions

Should we directly implement this into the react-native cli?

[PragatiVerma18]

I researched a little about this and came across an idea where we can make use of the GitHub Learning Labs.

The official documentation says:

Every step in a course will be triggered by a webhook event sent from GitHub. All possible events are documented in Events Types & Payloads on the GitHub Developer Guide.

This means that we can define actions on each step of the tutorial along with directions regarding the next steps. See an example here: Introduction to React

cc: @StuffByLiang ,@princiya, @XifeiNi

[princiya]

Thank you @StuffByLiang @PragatiVerma18 for your inputs. Let's discuss these points in more detail with Rick next week.