Talan CLI (tln
) is an open-source framework for managing third-party components from a wide range of ecosystems (Java, Node.js, C++, Golang, Angular etc.). tln
helps to create fully isolated
development environments, uniformly manage mono- & multi-
repo configurations, build smooth onboarding
experience, melt borders between local
development environments and CI/CT/CD
setups, get maximum from Polyglot Programming Polyglot Persistence
(4Ps) design.
Upcoming 2.x release will bring a new key feature: AaC - Architecture-as-Code.
Brew, Conan, Meta, Lerna, SDKMAN, jEnv, Chocolatey
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Install
Nodejs 16.x
or higher (https://nodejs.org)Linux
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x -o nodesource_setup.sh && sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs && node -v
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Make sure that
wget
is accessible via command line (Linux/MacOS) -
Make sure that
Powershell
script can be executed (Windows):set-executionpolicy remotesigned
or
set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
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Install tln-cli
npm i -g tln-cli && tln --version
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Create folder where all your projects will be located
- Linux/MacOs
cd ~
- Windows (you can use any disk, disk d: is used for demonstration purpose)
d: cd /
mkdir projects && cd projects && tln config --terse
- Linux/MacOs
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Create folder for the
hellotalan
project (insideprojects
folder)mkdir hellotalan && cd hellotalan && tln config --terse
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Edit
.tln.conf
file to get next configuration (you can just copy-paste it)module.exports = { options: async (tln, args) => {}, env: async (tln, env) => {}, dotenvs: async (tln) => [], inherits: async (tln) => [], depends: async (tln) => ['openjdk-18', 'mvn-3.8.6', 'go-1.19.2', 'node-16.18.0', 'kubectl-1.23.13', 'firebase-11.15.0'], steps: async (tln) => [], components: async (tln) => [] }
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Next command will install all components were listed inside
depends
section from.tln.conf
. Components will be installed insideprojects
folder andwill not affect any other already installed software
.tln install --depends
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Check version of installed components
tln versions --depends
[java] openjdk version "18" 2022-03-22 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 18+36-2087) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 18+36-2087, mixed mode, sharing) [maven] Apache Maven 3.8.6 (84538c9988a25aec085021c365c560670ad80f63) Maven home: /root/projects/maven/mvn-3.8.6 Java version: 1.8.0_342, vendor: Private Build, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "4.15.0-194-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" [golang] go version go1.19.2 linux/amd64 [node] v16.18.0 [npm] 8.19.2 [kubectl] Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"23", GitVersion:"v1.23.13", GitCommit:"592eca05be27f7d927d0b25cbb4241d75a9574bf", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-10-12T10:57:16Z", GoVersion:"go1.17.13", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"} [firebase] 11.15.0
- What is Component?
- Management of environment variables & dotenv files
- Versioning
- Mono- & multi-repo configurations
- MVTs - Minimal Vaible Templates
- Software Development Life Cycle
Let's say, you've joined Calbro.com company to head software project development. You will need to build new service as part of multiple already in-production applications. Your first steps are: configure local development environment, checkout existing projects and create initial structure for the new one.
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First step is to configure Calbro components
- Linux/MacOs
> cd ~/projects
- Windows
> d: > cd /projects
> mkdir calbro > cd calbro
For the next command replace Alice account name and email with your own (for this tutorial, please use your Github account)
> tln config --terse -e TLN_GIT_USER=Alice -e [email protected] --inherit git
- Linux/MacOs
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If you check created configuration file
.tln.conf
, you will see following JSON structuremodule.exports = { options: async (tln, args) => {}, env: async (tln, env) => { env.TLN_GIT_USER = 'Alice'; env.TLN_GIT_EMAIL = '[email protected]'; }, dotenvs: async (tln) => [], inherits: async (tln) => ['git'], depends: async (tln) => [], steps: async (tln) => [], components: async (tln) => [] }
This information will be used by all subsequent git calls.
Calbo is a big company and has a lot of teams and ongoing projects. You know that Calbro is using tln
to deal with internal complexity, so onboarding should be straightforward.
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You are part of
teamone
team and this should be reflected as part of your local dev environment> mkdir teamone > cd teamone # for ssh access > tln config --repo [email protected]:project-talan/calbro-teamone-tln.git # for https access # tln config --repo https://github.com/project-talan/tln-calbro-teamone.git > tln ls
Two last commands will do the magic: get teamone list of projects and display them to you
Configuration file
.tln/.tlf.conf
can unhide more detailsmodule.exports = { options: async (tln) => [], dotenvs: async (tln) => [], inherits: async (tln) => [], depends: async (tln) => [], env: async (tln, env) => { env.TLN_GIT_SSH_PREFIX = '[email protected]:'; env.TLN_GIT_HTTPS_PREFIX = 'https://github.com/'; env.TLN_GIT_ORIGIN = `${env.TLN_GIT_USER}/${env.TLN_COMPONENT_ID}.git`; env.TLN_GIT_UPSTREAM = `project-talan/${env.TLN_COMPONENT_ID}.git`; }, steps: async (tln) => [], components: async (tln) => [ { id: 'calbro-scanner' }, { id: 'calbro-portal' } ] }
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At this point, you are ready to get source code of the existing projects, build it and start checking implemented functionality
# for ssh access > tln clone calbro-scanner:calbro-portal # for https access # tln clone calbro-scanner:calbro-portal -- --https > tln install calbro-portal:calbro-scanner --depends > tln prereq:init -r > tln build -r
- First command will use
git clone
and your credentials were defined early inside.tln.conf
- Second will install all necessary
third-parties
components - Third one will generate
.env
file if any, using template, and run initialization commands likenpm i
- The last command will recursivelly
build
all components
- First command will use
You project is still at early stage, there are a lot of uncertainty, but you have to push it forward.
It's also not clear will be project based on SOA or Microservices or even N-tier, so you are ok to start with mono repo, but at the same time you want to build structure which can be splitted later if needed.
Calbro software development culture also includes recommendation to reuse wide range of project templates and you will follow this practice too.
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This is how your initial concept looks like:
- Admin
Frontend
-Angular
, a couple of developers have joined your team recently with necessary skills, AdminBackend
-Nodejs
API
service -Go
, since this is general company strategy and your project should be aligned with itAuth
service will utilizeNodejs
again, since it will be handled by the developer who will be working on Admin part- You need to have two types of persistent storages -
SQL & NoSQL
, because initial analysis shows that we can't have "shoes for all feets" approach - Managment wants to go with
mobile-first
approach, so you will try satisfy this requirement by usingCordova
and reuse our Javascript based frontend Main portal
web part will useReact
, because it's cool- We also need
Java
to build our automated test framework
- Admin
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So, here we go (you can copy commands below into create.sh script and execute them in a single run)
mkdir calbro-reporting && \ cd calbro-reporting && \ tln init-repo && \ tln config --terse && git add . && git commit -m"empty repo" && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix static/admin --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-angular.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix static/portal --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-react.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/admin --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/api --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-golang.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/auth --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix dbs/mongo --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-mongodb.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix dbs/postgresql --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-postgresql.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix mobile/cordova --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-cordova.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/api --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/load --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && \ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/e2e --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && \ tln config dbs:mobile:qa:services:static --terse && \ git add . && git commit -m"Initial skeleton" && \ cd ..
Windows (create.cmd)
mkdir calbro-reporting && ^ cd calbro-reporting && ^ tln init-repo && ^ tln config --terse && git add . && git commit -m"empty repo" && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix static/admin --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-angular.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix static/portal --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-react.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/admin --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/api --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-golang.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix services/auth --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix dbs/mongo --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-mongodb.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix dbs/postgresql --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-postgresql.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix mobile/cordova --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-cordova.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/api --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/load --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && ^ tln subtree-add -- --prefix qa/e2e --subtree https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git --ref master && ^ tln config dbs:mobile:qa:services:static --terse && ^ git add . && git commit -m"Initial skeleton" && ^ cd ..
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Initial structure is ready and we can verify mounted subtrees
> tln ls-subtrees calbro-reporting
Prefix Subtree Ref static/admin https://github.com/project-talan/tln-angular.git master static/portal https://github.com/project-talan/tln-react.git master services/admin https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git master services/api https://github.com/project-talan/tln-golang.git master services/auth https://github.com/project-talan/tln-nodejs.git master dbs/mongo https://github.com/project-talan/tln-mongodb.git master dbs/postgresql https://github.com/project-talan/tln-postgresql.git master mobile/cordova https://github.com/project-talan/tln-cordova.git master qa/api https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git master qa/load https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git master qa/e2e https://github.com/project-talan/tln-java.git master -
And the final step is to observe ready to use development environment structure with all necessary dependencies
> tln ls / -d 5 --all --installed-only
/ ├ angular │ ├ angular-9.1.8 │ └ angular-9.1.7 ├ calbro │ └ teamone │ ├ calbro-portal │ ├ calbro-reporting │ │ ├ dbs │ │ │ ├ mongo │ │ │ └ postgresql │ │ ├ mobile │ │ │ └ cordova │ │ ├ qa │ │ │ ├ api │ │ │ ├ e2e │ │ │ └ load │ │ ├ services │ │ │ ├ admin │ │ │ ├ api │ │ │ └ auth │ │ └ static │ │ ├ admin │ │ └ portal │ └ calbro-scanner ├ cordova │ └ cordova-9.0.0 ├ golang │ └ go-1.14.4 ├ hellotalan ├ java │ ├ openjdk-14.0.1 │ └ openjdk-11.0.2 ├ maven │ └ mvn-3.6.3 └ nodejs └ node-14.4.0