sidekick 0.8.0

Creates a CLI for your flutter app for custom tasks and automation

Changelog

0.8.0

• sidekick --version now prints the version

sidekick init

• cli entrypoint location (--entrypointDirectory) and cli package location (--cliPackageDirectory ) are now individually configurable. Will be asked during init if not provided.

• Allow project names with underscores #112

• Cli template updates

  • New <cli> sidekick update command (available since sidekick_core: 0.13.0), to update your existing sidekick cli to the latest version, like running sidekick init again #111
  • Output when compiling the cli is now reduced (no pub get output) #109
  • Analyzer now ignores the cli build dir #107

sidekick plugins

• Updated plugin templates
  • Using new addSelfAsDependency() method
  • shared-code template now saves the template dart files in the template dir, not as plain string in code. #132

0.7.2

• Add documentation
• Add example folder
• Update repository link

0.7.1

• Hotfix of build error

0.7.0

• New plugins system which can be used to easily extend your sidekick CLI and share automation with others (#58)
• sidekick plugins create creates a plugin from a template (#65, #79, #91)
• sidekick command in generated sidekick CLIs now bundles plugins, recompile, and install-global command (#82, #89)
• Add validation to only allow CLI names which are not already occupied on PATH (#76)
• Add CleanCommand to CLI template (#85)
• sidekick CLIs now download their own bundled Dart SDK instead of using flutterw (#53)

0.6.0

• We now support the "multiple packages" repository layout where all packages are located in /packages
• For multi package layouts, use the --mainProjectPath option to specify the path to the mainProject
• Fix macos detection in run.sh script
• The entrypoint is now executable on Unix systems when sidekick was generated on Windows #23
• the mason cli is now pinned in the project to be used in /tools

0.5.0

• Naming is hard, we're now suggesting cli names
• Update sidekick_core dependency on init
• Generate .gitignore

0.4.0

• Automatic recompile when cli code changes
• New install-global command. This is now a manual step and works on M1 macs (Darwin-arm64)
• entrypoint has been simplified and is now just a symlink on steroids
• Remove dependency on realpath (which was a third-party tool on macos)
• The root project has now a valid name

0.3.0

• Windows support
• Better cliName missing error message

0.2.0

• Rename update_sidekick task to recompile
• Update sidekick-core
• Update mason
• Support for dart 2.12

0.1.1

Update sidekick-core

0.1.0

First working prototype of sidekick init using flutterw

0.0.1

Claim pub name for CLI