w

w-cli is a cli application to spin up WordBox instances.

WordBox is a quick development (and deployment) environment for PHP.

Install

Before you install! p7zip must be in your PATH. 7z --help to verify. On Debian or Ubuntu, use sudo apt-get install p7zip. Currently w-cli only works in Linux.

Install w from npm!

npm install w --global

Usage

w new <appname>

Creates a new project at current folder with name appname. Downloads WordBox and extracts it to the folder and does npm install to resolve dependencies. You should download or compile php and php-cgi binaries and place them at appname/php. Place your public .php files at appname/public. Check config.js to see if all's perfect, then do node . to start a new Express server that runs PHP.

You should probably use nginx to reverse-proxy the server in production. Check out my other project up-serve [npm] [Github] to setup nginx servers with a single command.

Version

Current version is v 1.1.0. This is an MVP.

Note: Because npm versions are immutable, our public version number starts directly from v.1.0.1. The project should be considered unstable until v.2.0.0 which will be w-cli's first stable release version.

Credits

I humbly thank @wbhob for donating the package name w on npm.