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hylis

v1.0.0

Published

A CLI tool to initialize and manage Docker configurations for development

Readme

hylis

A CLI tool to initialize and manage Docker configurations for development projects with beautiful colored terminal output.

Features

  • 🔍 Automatic project type detection (Node.js, Python, Go, Java, PHP)
  • 🐳 Optimized Docker configurations for different frameworks
  • 🚀 Quick development environment setup
  • 📦 Production-ready build configurations
  • ⚙️ Automatic CI/CD workflow generation
  • 🎨 Beautiful colored terminal output with spinners
  • 📊 Real-time streaming command output

Installation

From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/isaac-hash/hylis.git
cd hylis

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Link globally (optional)
npm link

Using npm (once published)

npm install -g hylis

Usage

Initialize a Project

# Initialize with automatic detection
hylis init

# Skip Docker initialization
hylis init --skip-docker

# Skip CI workflow generation
hylis init --skip-ci

Start Development Environment

# Start in foreground
hylis dev

# Start in detached mode
hylis dev -d

# Enable hot-reload (watch mode)
hylis dev --watch

Build Production Image

hylis build

This will create Docker images with tags:

  • <project-name>:latest
  • <project-name>:<git-hash> (if in a git repository)

Supported Project Types

  • Next.js - Server-side rendered React applications
  • Vite - Modern frontend tooling (React, Vue, Svelte)
  • Node.js - Express, NestJS, and other Node.js frameworks
  • Python - Flask, Django, FastAPI
  • Go - Go applications with hot-reload
  • Java - Maven-based Spring Boot applications
  • PHP - Apache-based PHP applications

Project Structure

hylis/
├── src/
│   ├── commands/
│   │   ├── root.ts      # Main CLI program
│   │   ├── init.ts      # Init command
│   │   ├── dev.ts       # Dev command
│   │   └── build.ts     # Build command
│   ├── utils/
│   │   ├── config.ts    # Config file handling
│   │   └── detect.ts    # Project type detection
│   ├── templates/
│   │   └── index.ts     # Docker/compose templates
│   └── index.ts         # Entry point
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── README.md

Development

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Build TypeScript
npm run build

# Run built version
npm start

# Try the colored output examples
npx tsx examples/colored-output.ts

Terminal Output Features

This CLI uses chalk for colored output and ora for loading spinners:

  • ✅ Success messages in green
  • ❌ Error messages in red
  • ⚠️ Warnings in yellow
  • 📘 Info messages in blue/cyan
  • 🔄 Animated spinners for long-running operations
  • 📊 Real-time streaming output from Docker commands

See examples/colored-output.ts for comprehensive examples of all coloring options.

Configuration

hylis creates a hylis.yaml file in your project:

project_name: my-app
type: node

License

MIT