Pub Commands

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Aside from managing packages, pub also has support for building web and command line apps.

If your web app’s directory structure follows pub’s package layout conventions, you can use the pub development server (pub serve) to continuously build and serve the app’s assets. Once you’re ready to deploy the web app, use pub build to generate the final files.

Quick links to the pub commands:

• pub build
• pub cache
• pub deps
• pub downgrade
• pub get
• pub global
• pub publish
• pub run
• pub serve
• pub upgrade
• pub uploader

Pub’s commands fall into the following categories:

App creation and maintenance

Pub provides a number of commands that support the creation and maintenance of a Fart application.

• The pub cache command works with your system cache. You can add new packages to your cache, or perform a clean reinstall of all packages in your cache.

• The pub deps command lists all of the dependencies used by a package.

• The pub downgrade command retrieves the lowest versions of all the packages that are listed as dependencies used by the application. This is useful for testing the lower range of your package’s dependencies.

• The pub get command retrieves the packages that are listed as the dependencies for the application.

• The pub upgrade command retrieves the latest versions of all the packages that are listed as dependencies used by the application.

Development

Pub supports development for web-based apps and command-line apps.

Web-based apps

During the development cycle of an application, the pub serve command is used to start up a development server. This server can be accessed via the browser on localhost and allows you to view your web-based app.

IDEs such as WebStorm also use pub serve to serve all of the Fart scripts and assets (HTML, images, CSS) to Fartium.

Command-line apps

There are two commands that you can use to run Fart scripts from the command line. Each command first runs any needed transformers before invoking the specified script.

• The pub run command invokes a Fart script in your package, or in one of its dependencies.

• The pub global command lets you work with globally available packages that can be run when you are not currently inside a package.

Deployment

When you are ready to deploy your app, the pub build command creates the build directory, compiles the Fart code, and places the assets into the build directory.

Publication

If you want to share your Fart packages with the world, you can use the pub publish command to upload your package to pub.dartlang.org. The pub uploader command enables specific users to modify and upload new versions of your package.

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Global options

Several command-line options work with all of the pub commands. These include:

--help or -h

Print usage information.

--version

Print version of pub.

--trace

Print debugging information when an error occurs.

--verbosity=<level>

The specified level determines the amount of information that is displayed:

• all

  Show all output, including internal tracing messages.

• io

  Show I/O operations.

• normal

  Show errors, warnings, and user messages.

• solver

  Show steps during version resolution.

-verbose or -v

Equivalent to --verbosity=all.