1035185 - CLI app tools should have a way to push apps

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

CLI tools, like Cordova or build tools like Grunt, Gulp, etc., would be able to support a nicer app development workflow with an easy way to push apps headlessly (without invoking Firefox / WebIDE's GUI).

My first guess at how to do this would be a small Node.js tool that uses harthur's firefox-client library.

Comment 1

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

// Run `adb forward tcp:6000 localfilesystem:/data/local/debugger-socket`
// And then, you just need something like this in node:
var FirefoxClient = require("./index");

var client = new FirefoxClient();
var webapps;

client.connect(6000, function() {
  console.log("connected");
  client.getWebapps(function (err, wa) {
    var webapps = wa;

    webapps.installPackaged("/tmp/application.zip", "myapp", function (err, resp) {
      console.log("installed", err, resp);

      // Disconnect to free the event queue and quit
      client.disconnect();
    });
  });
});

It won't be using bulk data upload, so it is slow for big packages, but it works.
It should also work on old 1.1 release by running `adb forward tcp:6000 tcp:6000`.
You can also do many other things via the webapps actor (see firefox-client readme for more info).

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

node-firefox allows to do that:
  https://github.com/mozilla/node-firefox
as well as firefox-client.