Motive

A developer environment manager with a nice future. But first let's just make a simple task runner that takes advantage of a special version of Lua.

Installing

• macOS

$ brew tap wess/packages
$ brew update
$ brew install motive
$ cd /to/some/dir
$ motive init

• windows

to do

• linux

to do

Getting started

Once Motive is installed run: $ motive init and this will create a manifest file in your current directory. Anything in the manifest you write is standard lua, the only exception is defining tasks. Motive uses task to identify commands that can be run from the command line. For example:

-- task identifies what can be run using: $ motive taskname

task taskname -- this will get printed when running: $ motive list
  echo "Hello world"
  @ls -la
end

-- This function cannot be called from the command line and only available
-- in the manifest
function hello() 
  print("Hello, world!")
end

-- A task can call a lua function
task funcall -- Call a lua function
  hello()
end

Motive's Lua subset has some special magic in it that knows if you are calling Lua or not. You can use functions and call the functions like normal and if you want to call something from then command line you just type out the command (from within a Task declaration.). Like:

task hi
  ls -la
  @ls -la
end

The first call to ls -la will print the results to the terminal, and by adding @ in front of our shell command it will mute the output, ie: @ls -la

With your Manifest in place, simply call your task from the command line:

$ motive funcall
> Hello, world!
$ motive taskname
> Hello world

Breaking changes

• do is no longer used when defining a task.

What's included?

Everything Lua offers with the addition of a fancy exec function that runs shell commands.

Todo

• Easy ways to install.
• Built-in file watch, change, execute.
• Request client because why not.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome, just make a pull request. If you are including new functionality, please write a usage example, and include any information that will impact installation and/or setup.

License

Motive is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.