Pastries

Have you ever seen a package or library in which all functionality is contained in a single file? There are heaps of them. Additionally, there are very useful code examples in GitHub gists, Pastebin, and other places. A lot of reusable code that can be pasted directly into your project, but doing that manually can be a hurdle. Pastries command-line tool combines the convenience of package managers with the simplicity of copy-pasting code:

• Automatic installation and updating
• No central repository
• No accounts
• Full control of the code
• Utilization of your project's version control system

Installation

Download the appropriate executable file from releases, rename it to pastries and put it in a directory that is in your PATH variable.

Usage

Adding a dependency.

pastries add --name package_name --uri 'https://example.com/file.js' --path './src/path/to/local_file.js'

pastries add --name package_name --uri 'https://example.com/file.js' --path './src/path/to/local_file.js' --update never

pastries add --name package_name --uri './shared/local/file.js' --path './src/path/to/local_file.js' --update always --local

Options

• --name - the package name. It is used for update and remove commands.
• --uri - the source URL or file path.
• --path - the file path where to put the dependency.
• --local - indicates that the source is a local file.
• --update - specifies when to update the dependency. Possible options are always, never and on_change. The default is on_change which means the dependency will be updated if the source and the target files are different.

Updating a dependency.

pastries update

pastries update all

pastries update package_name

Removing a dependency.

pastries remove package_name