xo - aliasing on steroids

xo is a command-line application for managing your projects from anywhere in your terminal by importing projects and adding commands to this app. xo becomes your own CLI app which you can customize and add commands for all of your projects. The most time-saving part of this tool is that:

• you can run your commands from any path in your terminal
• you can open your project from any path in your terminal
• you can share xofile with anyone for easy understanding of setup of your project

Getting started

By default xo doesn't see know anything about your workspace. You have to do:

xo init

which will create a file called xo.json with defaults.

Here is an example xo.json file which this project uses:

{
    "name": "xoproject",
    "commands": [
        {
            "name": "run",
            "cmd": "go run main.go",
            "env": [],
            "help": "run the xo project"
        },
        {
            "name": "install",
            "cmd": "go build -o xo main.go && sudo mv xo /usr/local/bin/xo && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/xo",
            "help": "build and install the xo binary in your PATH"
        },
        {
            "name": "pack",
            "cmd": "go build -o xo main.go",
            "help": "pack xo binary for release"
        }
    ]
}

once you have added your commands you can import this project to xo by doing:

xo import

now lets run the info command to see if it got imported:

xo ! xoproject

the ! command displays the project details and the xoproject after the ! is the project name. This produces the following output:

+---------+----------------------------------------------+
| XO      |                                              |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+
| Command | Help                                         |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+
| install | build and install the xo binary in your PATH |
| pack    | pack xo binary for release                   |
| run     | run the xo project                           |
+---------+----------------------------------------------+

once you have imported the project you now can run your project from anywhere:

xo xoproject run

take a look at this blog post for more info on this tool.

Future of this tool

xo will help developers and teams to setup whole workspace with a single command.