Lab 9 Blog

    It is finally time for us to publish our Release 0.1 projects for public use! As we are getting close to the end of the semester it is about time for everyone in the class to publish their very first package so others can use it. I myself am excited to finally finish the first release of our project.

    We are instructed to choose a package release method, and since I've uploaded it to Node Package Manager for my project's initial release, all I have to do is to use NPM and update the existing package. I had decided to google the methods for the project's initial release, the only things I really have to do in this lab is to update the release tag in my package.json as well as other documentation about the tool. To update an existing package, you simply had to use "npm publish" in the repository folder after logging in using "npm login".

    After the documentation about the features, instructions, and versions are all up to date, I had a few friends who are also programmers to download my tool using "npm project-checkurl" to test for any possible errors that may occur during runtime. Reviews upon using the tool mention many improper errors handling for arguments and file path names, so I covered every problem mentioned with a message and then exited the program with either code 1 or 0 depending on if the program had finished running without any errors or not.

    The project has been officially released, the instructions on how to use it can be found here. The tool can be installed using "npm project-checkurl" or just accessed using "npx project-checkurl". There is still much to do in terms of adding more features and adding more automated testings for the tool.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lab 2 Blog

     Today I contributed to another user's project on GitHub , I wanted to work on a feature where it counts how many times each type of HTTP status code as well as URLs in total has been checked, and then display it as a result section of the output.      First I sent out an Issue on his repository regarding what I wanted to do and proposed to work on it myself. After I finished adding my feature, I issued a pull request to the person's repository as I wait for feedback.      During the making of the Result Counter feature, I started by creating variables to hold all the counters and display messages. Then, I put the counters inside the loop that determines the status of the URLs, counting each and every time the if statement was valid. The total amount of URLs are added each time the loop had completed. One major problem I came across while making this feature was the fact that the result message were displayed before the list of URLs were outputted, the only way for me to
Read more

Lab 4 Blog

     This week's lab consisted of going to a new user's repository that we haven't worked on before, and add a new feature called "Ignore URL Patterns" onto their Release 0.1 repository. This feature will be activated after a new argument '--ignore' had been received, containing the ignore argument will allow the CLI tool to read two files in order: the file that contains the list of URLs that will be ignored by the link checker, and the argument after that will be the targeted file to scan.     I created an Issue on another person's Repository , and once I got permission to work on the issue, I Forked the repository into my own and cloned that forked repository into my local machine. I ran through the code and got a better understanding of how the code works before working to add the feature in.     After the feature had been completed, I contacted the owner of the project through the issue that was opened to let him know that I had finished the fea
Read more

Release 0.4

     The final assignment is finally here, it is almost time to say goodbye to this semester. Throughout the semester, we've done many different things and was involved in several open-source projects where we learned and overcame problems. This is the best course to explore Github and get some hands-on experience with programming, the open-source community is vast and filled with professionals that you can work with as well as learn from.     For the final assessment, I'd like to work on a feature that I've never touched before to prove that I did indeed grow as a programmer from taking this course. I decided to work on a repository that had started contributing to since Release 0.2, qasong . I picked this because they are a project that is near launch and I grew to like their team's effort as well as what they do, I definitely learned a lot more about React by contributing.      I am currently contemplating on taking an old issue that was never taken since September,
Read more