Usage

Once you created a new (cloud) project on forest admin, you can use this package to add code customizations to it.

The workflow to add code customizations is the following:

1. Setup the project
2. Write your customizations
3. Publish your customizations to your project
4. Update typings to update typings in your IDE
5. Refresh authentication token
6. Display logs

Setup

Not needed if the project has already a .env file !

If there is no .env file at the root of the project you need to create one with the following content:

FOREST_ENV_SECRET=your-env-secret

You can found the FOREST_ENV_SECRET in the forestadmin interface, in the Project Settings > Environment section or ask it to an administrator of the project.

Install dependencies and build

yarn install or npm install

then build the project

yarn build or npm run build

You can found in your package.json some scripts to help you to develop customizations. You can replace them with your own scripts, by using directly the forest-cloud command.

Write your customizations

Open the src folder and start writing your customizations in the index.ts file.

Read the developer guide to learn how to write customizations.

Publish your customizations

You can use yarn or npm and run forestadmin:build:package:publish script.

This command will build your customizations and publish them to your project.

This shortcut will run the following commands:

yarn run build or npm run build

npx forest-cloud package
npx forest-cloud publish

Update typings

build and build:watch scripts will update typings automatically.

But if you want to update typings manually, you can run:

npx forest-cloud update-typings

You can also use yarn or npm and run forestadmin:update-typings script.

This command will update typings according to the structure of your database and your current code customizations. The typings are here to provide autocompletion in your IDE to help you write faster and avoid errors in your code.

You should execute this command on a regular basis, to keep your IDE updated with your database structure and customizations.

Login

npx forest-cloud login

You can also use yarn or npm and run forestadmin:login script.

This command triggers an authentication workflow and refresh the authentication token.

An alternative, is to add the FOREST_AUTH_TOKEN token in your .env file. You can create one by going to your account settings.

Then add the following line in your .env file:

FOREST_AUTH_TOKEN=your-token

Display logs

npx forest-cloud logs

You can also use yarn or npm and run forestadmin:logs script.

This command will display the logs of your project. It's useful to debug your customizations. By default, it will display the last 30 logs of the current month.