aah CLI Tool

Introduction to aah CLI tool, it’s very handy tool for development, Continuous Integration (CI) and deployment preparation.

aah CLI is fully POSIX compliant flags (includes short and long versions) and command aliases too.

Table of Contents

• Commands
• Cross Compile Build
• vgo Support on-demand
• AAHPATH

Commands

jeeva@mb-pro:~$ aah
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                    aah framework v0.11.0
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# Report improvements/bugs at https://aahframework.org/issues #

Usage:
  aah [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

Commands:
  new, n          Creates new aah 'web', 'api' or 'websocket' application (interactive)
  run, r          Runs aah application (supports hot-reload)
  build, b        Builds aah application for deployment (single or non-single)
  list, l         Lists all the aah projects on your GOPATH
  clean, c        Cleans the aah generated files and build directory
  switch, s       Switches between aah release and edge version
  update, u       Updates aah to the latest release version on your GOPATH
  generate, g     Generates boilerplate code, configurations, complement scripts (systemd, docker), etc.
  migrate, m      Migrates application codebase to current version of aah (currently beta)
  help, h         Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Global Options:
  -y, --yes      Automatic yes to prompts. Assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively.
  -h, --help     Shows help
  -v, --version  Prints cli, aah, go and aah libraries version

Cross Compile Build

Set environment variables GOOS and GOARCH before executing aah build command. List of available GOOS and GOARCH values, click here.

Building linux binary on macOS

env GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 aah build --output /Users/jeeva/build

# Output:
...
Application artifact is here: /Users/jeeva/build/myapp-99bf7df-linux-amd64.zip

Building windows exe on macOS

env GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 aah build --output /Users/jeeva/build

# Output:
...
Application artifact is here: /Users/jeeva/build/myapp-99bf7df-windows-amd64.zip

vgo Support

In v0.11.0, aah CLI brings vgo on-demand support. aah user could try out vgo via setting environment varaiable.

env AAHVGO=true aah run

AAHPATH

AAHPATH is introduced in v0.11.0.

• It is step towards aah CLI binary distribution. v0.11.0 includes Homebrew channel
• Also started a work for adapting to Versioned Go (vgo) into aah

# `AAHPATH` default value is -
$HOME/.aah