Added a tool to create posts and setting up everything

[ramclen]

Hello, I added a new script to the project to automate how we create posts and setting up everything on the project.

To use the tool you need to add your dev.to key on the config.json.dist and remove .dist extension from the file. After that you run the command: ./tools/create-post.js "My new titlte"

What the script does:

• Copy your template directory
• Rename the new directory replacing spaces with hyphen
• Call dev.to API rest to create the new post and get the ID
• Add the new directory and ID object on dev-to-git.json

[marioarranzr]

Really good stuff!

[jikuja]

Cool idea. I cherry-picked this for my repo and run into some problems:

• New dependencies are missing from package.json and package-lock.json
• Project is already using got. Using axios does unneeded production dependency size increase
• tools/config.json shoud be added into .gitignore for safety reasons
• POST fails with {"error":"Body markdown is too short (minimum is 0 characters)","status":422}
  • Looks like body_markdown is required even dev.to API documantion does not mention it as required data
• The body must contain some data, otherwise article updater will fail: https://github.com/maxime1992/dev-to-git/issues/19

[ramclen]

• maxime1992/dev-to-git#19

Cool idea. I cherry-picked this for my repo and run into some problems:

• New dependencies are missing from package.json and package-lock.json
• Project is already using got. Using axios does unneeded production dependency size increase
• tools/config.json shoud be added into .gitignore for safety reasons

• POST fails with {"error":"Body markdown is too short (minimum is 0 characters)","status":422}

  • Looks like body_markdown is required even dev.to API documantion does not mention it as required data
• The body must contain some data, otherwise article updater will fail: maxime1992/dev-to-git#19

Great points @jikuja. I am going to made the changes and update this branch. As you said, it is important to have the config on .gitignore for security reasons, I have on my repo but I forgot to add this change in this PR.

Hopefully @maxime1992 could give us his point too and have this PR merge

[maxime1992]

Hi guys, sorry it took me so long to get back to you and thanks for the interest on the lib!

First of all, congrats for having a go at this :smile_cat:!

I like the idea here but... I'm not sure this is the best place to implement it.
This repository is just a template and this is not where I'd reimplement the authentication to dev.to and using an http lib like got directly.

I think something slightly more robust could be built on the CLI I wrote to push articles to dev.to (and which I'm using on this "maxime1992/dev.to" template): https://github.com/maxime1992/dev-to-git

There's already an issue for that here: https://github.com/maxime1992/dev-to-git/issues/8

Assuming the proposed command got implemented and we could do something like the following:

dev-to-git create-article "My amazing new blog post"

I think on the template side it'd be as simple as having a node script just calling the CLI and once we receive a good HTTP response, then simply create an empty folder.

To give a summary of my thinking here:

• This repo responsibility is only the global scaffolding. Only related to file organisation
• There's a CLI I built here which responsibility is to call dev.to API and it's already handling the auth etc. This CLI should only manage the HTTP side, not care about any file structure
• This repo (maxime1992/dev.to) could have a super tiny node script that'd take only 1 argument: a path. When called, it'd first call the CLI, wait for the CLI to say that the article has been created and once that's the case, copy the template folder into the path that was passed as argument. We don't care about the title of the blog post for now as we'll be able to update it in the front matter anyway. After all that, it should add the new path to the article into the dev-to-git.json

[maxime1992]

As per my comment above I'll go ahead and close this