frijol/get-cli

Serves Tessel 2 CLI files on a Tessel 2

get-cli

Very simple server on Tessel that serves the t2-cli repo from a local network.

Used in the situation where one person has a copy of the T2 CLI and wants to be able to serve it to many other people.

Setting Up to Serve

Prerequisite: assumes that you already have a local copy of the t2 cli but want to serve it to others

• Clone this repo
• Use npm to install the Tessel 2 CLI: npm install -g t2-cli and plug in your Tessel
• Start Tessel as a wireless access point: t2 ap -n <somename> (it will show up in your Wifi list as whatever name you make up)
• Run the file with t2 run index.js or if you'd prefer to plug it into the wall and forget about it, t2 push index.js

Receiving and Using the Served CLI

• Connect to the wireless access point created in the t2 ap command above
• Go to http://192.168.1.101:8080/ and the T2 CLI file will download
• Unzip the file wherever it downloaded, navigate to inside that unzipped directory in the command line, and run npm link --local
• If it worked, you should now be able to run t2 commands
• Remember to reconnect your computer to a different Wifi network once you've finished if you need internet access

To Update the T2 CLI Served

• Get an updated copy of the T2 CLI by installing it with npm install -g t2-cli and looking in your global node modules, or git cloning it from github.com/tessel/t2-cli. You may wish to reduce the size of the file by deleting any unused dependencies, such as all of the grunt npm modules
• In the directory where your t2-cli folder resides, run tar -cvz -f cli.tar.gz t2-cli/.
• Copy the tarball (.tar.gz) file you just created into the public folder of this repo, replacing the existing cli.tar.gz

File Structure

• index.js is the entry point, which creates a webserver and pushes the file from public to the client to download
• public folder contains the zipped tarball of the CLI
• .tesselinclude tells the T2 CLI to push over files not specified by Node requires in the index file, namely the public folder