app-stamp

Summary

Generates a JSON file from various sources that uniquely identifies a versioned app or package.

Example uses:

• A SPA/web front-end can read the file and display the version to the user in the page footer
• A back-end API can return the version and/or Git hash from this file in an info/healthcheck endpoint to aid in issue diagnostics

Features

• Combines info from various sources into a JSON file
  • Timestamp (current or specified)
  • MD5 hash of a specified file
  • Information from an NPM package.json file
  • Git repository information from a specified directory
• Choose which information sources to include

Compatibility

This package has been tested on the following versions of Node.js:

• 8.x
• 10.x

Installation using NPM

Install as a local dependency

npm install app-stamp

Install globally

npm install app-stamp -g

Usage

Command-line

Usage: app-stamp [options]

  Options:

    --date [value]             Include timestamp; accepts any valid numeric or string date representation (default: current date/time)
    --git [repo-dir]           Include info from Git repository (default: current directory)
    --hash <file-path>         Include MD5 hash of the specified file's contents
    --npm [package-json-path]  Include info from NPM package.json (default: package.json in current directory)
    --output-path <path>       Path to output file (default: stamp.json)
    --verbose                  Writes detailed output to console
    -h, --help                 output usage information

Example

Command-line:

$ app-stamp --git --npm --output-path dist/stamp.json

stamp.json:

{
  "git_author": "jdoe <[email protected]>",
  "git_branch": "master",
  "git_commit": "a9b34e83946fe0ceac52e7d6e49545439e3ed600",
  "git_commit_date": "2018-08-10T12:06:32.000Z",
  "npm_author": "John Doe",
  "npm_name": "my-app",
  "npm_version": "1.2.3"
}