Lana! NPM scripts with better UX 🏓

What?

Lana! provides a convenient, global API to browse and run NPM scripts in your projects. Also, it makes managing your documentation easier by pulling out descriptions from your projects' README.md file.

Why?

Do you happen to switch between your projects often and rely on reading package.json to look up the dev tasks? Well, I do. So give it a try. Your OCD will thank you.

Why not?

There are many ways of tackling this issue, usually script names should be descriptive enough or one might say package.json is not the right place for that at all.

Normally, I'd agree with that, but it suits my workflow and might help you as well.

Setup

Supported Node.js version: 6.x.x and higher

Yarn

$ yarn global add lana-cli

NPM

$ npm i -g lana-cli

Usage

In a Javascript project with package.json, type:

$ lana

You can share documentation between lana! and README.md by tagging content, like in this imaginary CMS (Cat Management System).

Usage (documentation)

Add <!--lana: NPM_TASK_NAME--> at the end of a header or paragraph describing the task, and Lana will pick it up.

#### Start a debug server <!--lana: start-->
    $ npm start

#### Upload kittens <!--lana: upload-kittens-->
    $ npm run upload-kittens

#### Download database for integration tests <!--lana: integration-db-download-->
    $ ./build/prepare_db.sh && npm run integration-db-download