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Introducing Versa - the versatile CLI tool

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+title: Introducing Versa - the versatile CLI tool
+date: 2024-02-19
+permalink: archive/2024/02/19/introducing-versa
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+   Introducing Versa - the versatile CLI tool 
+tags:
+    - software-development
+    - php
+    - symfony
+    - open-source
+---
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+Today, I started to build a new open-source project - Versa, the versatile command-line tool that standardises common commands across projects.
+
+After watching a Twitch streamer building something similar in Rust, I decided to build my take on it and add features I'd need, such as support for local vs Docker-based commands and to run different commands for different projects.
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+For example, `versa run` would need to run different commands for Drupal and Sculpin projects, `versa test` should support different test frameworks for the same language - e.g. PHPUnit, Pest and ParaTest for PHP - and the commands will need to be different in Docker Compose-based projects.
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+Currently, this logic is within my [Build Configs] project but can be moved to Versa.
+
+This reduces the complexity within that codebase and means I can open-source it as it's a separate project.
+
+At the moment, I've added PHP as the only supported language but I will add JavaScript/TypeScript support so it supports projects like Fractal.
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+It's still in the prototype phase and includes some initial commands, but the interesting parts will be making it clever.
+
+Instead of running `versa run --type sculpin`, I'd like to just do `versa run` and have it determine the type of project automatically.
+
+`versa test` should be able to determine the testing framework automatically based on what's in the project's `composer.json` file instead of having to specify it.
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+Likewise, for JavaScript, `versa install` should be able to determine if `npm`, `yarn` or `pnpm` is used.
+
+That'll be where the more complex code will be added and when I start doing test-driven development - maybe with Behat, which is also something I've been thinking about for Build Configs.
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+Interested? [Take a look at the code][github].
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+[build configs]: {{site.url}}/build-configs
+[github]: https://github.com/opdavies/versa