Changes to your sidekick CLI #

• <cli> <command> Sidekick CLIs now automatically check for updates after executing a command. Disable with export SIDEKICK_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=false #177 #171
• <cli> sidekick update now updates to the latest stable Dart SDK #167
• Automatic pub upgrade when CLI compilation fails (due to Dart SDK upgrade) #166

New APIs #

• New: BashCommand to simplify converting bash scripts to commands in dart #168

  BashCommand(
    name: 'codegen',
    description: 'Runs build runner',
    workingDirectory: runner.mainProject?.root,
    script: () => '''
  ${systemFlutterSdkPath()}/bin/flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs
  ''',
  ),
  

Bugfixes and improvements #

• DepsCommand now ignores sidekick packages, which pull deps automatically with embedded Dart SDK #184
• Fix: DepsCommand.excludeGlob now starts matching at repo root, not CWD #183
• sidekick update now handles path and git dependencies when updating sidekick_core #180
• DartPackage.fromDirectory() Simplify detection of Flutter packages #182

Template Changes #

• CLI template now does not generate a <cli>_project.dart file. You can continue to use yours but we found most people didn't need it. (#156)
• UsageException is now correctly printed (#157) (with <cli> sidekick update migration)
• Calling the CLI with zero arguments now also checks for sidekick updates (#157) (with <cli> sidekick update migration)
• Fix unnecessary CLI recompilation in run.sh (#152)

API Changes #

• New DartPackage.lockfile getter (#159)
• New DartPackage.fromArgResults constructor for Commands that take a package as only argument. Parses rest and cwd. (#160)
• SidekickTemplateProperties now has optional properties. Caller has to decide what to inject for each template. (#161)

• Fix sidekick plugins install for git and local sources #144

• New sidekick update command for updating your sidekick CLI (#111)
• Add excludeGlob parameter to DepsCommand (#125)
• Add --version flag to sidekick command
• Support FLUTTER_ROOT environment variable for local Flutter SDK (#123)
• Update templates (#132, #126)
• Installing sidekick plugins from git is now possible (#126)
• Experimental: Automatic sidekick update check when setting SIDEKICK_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK environment variable to true

• New: version getter mirroring the sidekick_core version in pubspec.yaml
• Analyzer now ignores the build folder. Previously, the embedded dart sdk was accidentally analyzed #107
• Reduce stdout noise when installing a plugin from pub (sidekick plugin install) #109
• Reduce stdout when compiling the cli (not showing dart pub get stdout) #109
• Allow cli names to include underscores (sidekick init) #112
• DepsCommand now accounts for the exclude parameter, not loading dependencies for those packages #118

• New: <FileSystemEntity>.makeExecutable() extension method
• Update repository URL in pubspec.yaml
• Move cli template into sidekick_core

• New: addFlutterSdkInitilizer method to allow plugins downloading the Flutter SDK before flutter is called #99
• Widen dcli version range

• Fix install-global command which crashed in some cases (#94)

• Template shared-command and shared-code now use the library keyword #87
• findAllPackages works now outside of the SidekickCommandRunner
• New OutOfCommandRunnerScopeException when accessing cliName and friends outside of a Command #88
• Allow execution of PluginCommand from our sidekick cli using the system dart sdk #91
• New SidekickCommand that bundles now plugins, recompile and install-global #89

• Fix: Setting flutterSdkPath and dartSdkPath in initializeSidekick now works with relative paths from anywhere as well.
  Relative paths are resolved relative to the project root.
• New: The plugins create command now also generates a README.md, .gitignore, and analysis_options.yaml
• New: DepsCommand (previously was in sidekick)
• New: RecompileCommand (previously was in sidekick)
• New: Functions returning system Dart/Flutter SDKs (systemDartSdk, systemDartSdkPath, systemFlutterSdk, systemFlutterSdkPath)

• DartCommand and FlutterCommand now require the SDKs to be set in initializeSidekick(flutterSdkPath: ..., dartSdkPath: ...).). This is a non-breaking change, falling back to flutter_wrapper`.
• Breaking: Plugins now use a zero argument main function. All information during install is injected via env, accessible with PluginContext #72
• New: DartPackage doesn't require a lib directory anymore #63
• Add: SidekickPackage.cliMainFile location where plugins are registered

• New: plugins create now generates plugins from templates
• Fix: plugins install now uses a temp working directory instead of manipulating the pub cache during install
• New: isValidPubPackageName(String name) returns true when the name is a valid pub package name according to https://dart.cn/tools/pub/pubspec#name

• New: PluginsCommand to automatically install plugins to easily extend sidekick CLIs
• New: SidekickDartRuntime sidekickDartRuntime that points to the dart sdk bundled with the CLI
• New: Repository.sidekickPackage which returns Repository.cliPackageDir as SidekickPackage object.

• Breaking initializeSidekick() now returns a SidekickCommandRunner instance (was void). You have to use this runner to access the global sidekick variables cliName, mainProject,repository
• Regenerate your cli with sidekick: 0.6.0 to migrate

• constrain dcli, new versions are not compatible with Dart 2.15 and below

• Print script + stderr when execution of an inline script (writeAndRunShellScript(script)) fails

Breaking This update requires the sidekick project to be initialized again with sidekick: 0.4.0

• New InstallGlobalCommand (links binaries in $HOME/.sidekick/bin)
• Simplified repository detection (breaking)
• error now support errorCode

• Require Dart 2.14

• flutterw() is now windows compatible
• dart() is now windows compatible
• DartPackage detection prints a warning for packages without a lib/ dir

• Update dcli to 1.15.0 due to breaking change

• Update dcli
• Widen dartx version range

• AnalyzeCommand now fails with correct exit code

• Include ForwardCommand and add flutterw, dart and analyze subcommands

• Add initializeSidekick()
• Add repository, cliName and mainProject
• Add util files