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Chris Eldredge
Chris Eldredge

Reputation: 2951

Ember-cli: Inject version into app

I like to display my project version (from package.json), the git commit hash and working-copy status in the footer of my Ember app built using ember-cli and broccoli.

I can grab the version prefix easily enough by adding to my config/environment.js:

ENV.APP.version = require('../package.json').version

I was using grunt-git-describe previously to grab the revision hash and dirty/clean status. How can I do something similar in ember-cli?

Simply shelling out to git describe is problematic since child_process does not have a synchronous method of executing a shell command.

It there a way I can return a promise from somewhere and prevent config/environment.js from resolving until my async git describe completes?

The npm packages exec-sync and execSync don't seem to work well for me on Windows.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2002

Answers (2)

Chris Eldredge
Chris Eldredge

Reputation: 2951

ember-git-version is an ember-cli addon that provides the current revision hash.

After installing the node package, the config/environment hash will have a property currentRevision. See initializers/print-git-info.js for how to access it from your app.

Upvotes: 3

Scott Nedderman
Scott Nedderman

Reputation: 567

You can use the exec-sync package and then add something like this to Brocfile.js:

var execSync = require('exec-sync'),
    gitVersion = execSync('git describe');

fs.writeFileSync('app/version.js', 'App.version = "' + gitVersion + '";';

You'll then need to import that somewhere.

Upvotes: 1

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