rdt - Remote Development Tool

A Node.js development tool for lightweight remote systems. Use your high performance development machine to build and serve your project to a low performance remote device.

rdt is a daemon that runs on your development machine. rdt watches your project directory for changes and gives APIs to build and deploy your project to a remote device. rdt can run a local web server for a fast local UI experience with easy connection to the real backend through integrated port forwarding.

Remote Development Tool is still in early development. The API and configuration format might change.

Installation

npm install -D @cinderblock/rdt  # Npm package
npm install -D cinderblock/rdt   # Github repository

Usage

Create a file rdt.ts in the root of your project that exports a targets object and an optional default target name.

Example rdt.ts

import { Targets, logger } from 'rdt';

export const defaultTarget = 'myPi';

export const targets: Targets = {
  myPi: {
    handler: {
      async onConnected({ connection, targetName, targetConfig }) {
        logger.info('connected:', targetName);
        logger.info(targetConfig);
      },

      async onDisconnected({ targetName, targetConfig }) {
        logger.info('disconnected:', targetName);
      },

      async onFileChanged({ connection, targetName, targetConfig, localPath }) {
        return true;
      },

      async onDeployed({ connection, targetName, targetConfig, changedFiles }) {
        logger.info('deployed:', targetName);
      },
    },
    devServer: 'src/ui/index.ts',
  },
};

rdt dev [target] - Start the development server

npx rdt dev         # Run default target
npx rdt dev myPi    # Run target: myPi
npx rdt dev otherPi # Run target: otherPi

Use npx or directly in package.json scripts without npx:

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "rdt dev"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "rdt": "^0.1.1"
  }
}

npm run dev
npm run dev -- myPi
npm run dev -- otherPi