flex

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Flex - A dev tool for Barix Flexa

About

This command line tool is meant to help you initialize flexa packages by scaffolding a simple hello world app, as well as package and send the app and send config files.

Installation

Place the binary somewhere in your path, and call the app from your command line.

Release

You can download the binary from the release page

Go

You can install this tool with go using the following command:

go install github.com/mbaklor/flex

note: you may need to add ~/go/bin to your path to access the tool after install

Build from source

To build a binary from source you need git and go installed on your system. Simply git clone, cd into the folder, and go install

note: you may need to add ~/go/bin to your path to access the tool after install

Usage

Initialize a package

flex init [-n] [-l] [-w] [-y] [-g]

• -n - project name
• -l - name of app log file, default is app_log.log
• -w - use this flag to add the app log as a tab in the Flexa web UI
• -y - use default options for both -l and -w
• -g - initialize a git repo in the package folder

The init command can also be called with no arguments and will prompt you for them.

Zip and send package to a device

flex package [-d] [-b] [-a -u -p] [-f]

• -d - directory to zip, if none provided cwd is assumed
• -b - use this flag to bundle (zip) the package without sending to a device, if provided the next flags are ignored
• -a - IP address of Flexa device to send package to
• -u - username of Flexa device
• -p - password of Flexa device
• -f - json file or files containing address, username, and password of Flexa device

If no device information is supplied, you get prompted if you want to bundle without sending.

Send config file

flex config [-a -u -p] [-f] (arg)

• -a - IP address of Flexa device to send package to
• -u - username of Flexa device
• -p - password of Flexa device
• -f - json file or files containing address, username, and password of Flexa device
• (arg) - config file to send, needs to be in json format

device json example

{
  "address": "1.2.3.4",
  "username": "admin",
  "password": "1234"
}