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Apify command-line interface helps you create, develop, build and run Apify actors, and manage the Apify cloud platform.
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Add option to quickly deploy the selected Actor template to Apify console #459

Closed jbartadev closed 10 months ago

jbartadev commented 10 months ago

We could improve the conversion between the CLI and Console by adding an additional option to the selected template prompt for apify create command.

Current flow

apify create

1) ? Name of your new actor: 2) ? Choose the programming language of your new actor: (Use arrow keys) 3) ? Choose the programming language of your new actor: (Use arrow keys) ❯ JavaScript TypeScript Python

4) ❯ Start with JavaScript 5) ? Do you want to install the following template? Start with JavaScript: Scrape single page with provided URL with Axios and extract data from page's HT ML with Cheerio. (Use arrow keys) ❯ Install template ────────────── Go back

My proposal

I'd add additional option to the step 5 - something like

❯ Install template Deploy template to Apify Console ────────────── Go back**

The option would open the browser and either go to https://console.apify.com/actors/templates/js-start (the template detail) or it could create the Actor from the template straight away and go to the Actor detail page.

jbartadev commented 10 months ago

CC @HonzaTuron @fnesveda @B4nan

B4nan commented 10 months ago

We can surely add that, but I am not sure how it's gonna improve things. It feels weird to use CLI to open a webpage instead of installing the template locally, the path we should nurture here is pushing the local project I'd say. Maybe a hint at the end about using apify push would be more suitable? We could still do both for sure.

Sidenote: the code highlighting theme is apparently broken, looks like a dark theme pallete

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jbartadev commented 10 months ago

Let's add it as a message after the template installation, we'll ask for copy from marketing