bee

Bee is a command line tool facilitating development with beego framework.

Requirements

• Go version >= 1.1.

Installation

Begin by installing bee using go get command.

go get github.com/beego/bee

Then you can add bee binary to PATH environment variable in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile file:

export PATH=$PATH:<your_main_gopath>/bin/bee

If you already have bee installed, updating bee is simple:

go get -u github.com/beego/bee

Basic commands

Bee provides a variety of commands which can be helpful at various stage of development. The top level commands include:

new         create an application base on beego framework
run         run the app which can hot compile
pack        compress an beego project
api         create an api application base on beego framework
bale        packs non-Go files to Go source files
version     show the bee & beego version
generate    source code generator
migrate     run database migrations

bee version

The first command is the easiest: displaying which version of bee, beego and go is installed on your machine:

$ bee version
bee   :1.2.2
beego :1.4.0
Go    :go version go1.2.1 linux/amd64

bee new

Creating a new beego web application is no big deal, too.

$ bee new myapp
[INFO] Creating application...
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/conf/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/controllers/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/models/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/routers/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/tests/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/static/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/static/js/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/static/css/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/static/img/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/views/
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/conf/app.conf
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/controllers/default.go
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/views/index.tpl
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/routers/router.go
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/tests/default_test.go
/home/zheng/gopath/src/myapp/main.go
2014/08/29 15:45:47 [SUCC] New application successfully created!

bee run

To run the application we just created, navigate to the application folder and execute bee run.

$ cd myapp
$ bee run

bee pack

coming soon ...

bee api

coming soon ...

bee bale

coming soon ...

bee migrate

usage: bee migrate [Command]

bee migrate [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"]
    run all outstanding migrations
    -driver: [mysql | postgresql | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver, the default is root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test

bee migrate rollback [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"]
    rollback the last migration operation
    -driver: [mysql | postgresql | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver, the default is root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test

bee migrate reset [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"]
    rollback all migrations
    -driver: [mysql | postgresql | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver, the default is root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test

bee migrate refresh [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"]
    rollback all migrations and run them all again
    -driver: [mysql | postgresql | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver, the default is root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test

bee generate

Bee also comes with a souce code generator which speeds up the development.

usage: bee generate [Command]

bee generate scaffold [scaffoldname] [-fields=""] [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"]
    The generate scaffold command will do a number of things for you.
    -fields: a list of table fields. Format: field:type, ...
    -driver: [mysql | postgres | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver, the default is root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test
    example: bee generate scaffold post -fields="title:string,body:text"

bee generate model [modelname] [-fields=""]
    generate RESTFul model based on fields
    -fields: a list of table fields. Format: field:type, ...

bee generate controller [controllerfile]
    generate RESTFul controllers             

bee generate view [viewpath]
    generate CRUD view in viewpath

bee generate migration [migrationfile] [-fields=""]
    generate migration file for making database schema update
    -fields: a list of table fields. Format: field:type, ...
	
bee generate docs
    generate swagger doc file

bee generate test [routerfile]
    generate testcase

bee generate appcode [-tables=""] [-driver=mysql] [-conn="root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test"] [-level=3]
    generate appcode based on an existing database
    -tables: a list of table names separated by ',', default is empty, indicating all tables
    -driver: [mysql | postgres | sqlite], the default is mysql
    -conn:   the connection string used by the driver.
             default for mysql:    root:@tcp(127.0.0.1:3306)/test
             default for postgres: postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/postgres
    -level:  [1 | 2 | 3], 1 = models; 2 = models,controllers; 3 = models,controllers,router

Shortcuts

Because you'll likely type these generator commands over and over, it makes sense to create aliases.

# Generator Stuff
alias g:a="bee generate appcode"
alias g:m="bee generate model"
alias g:c="bee generate controller"
alias g:v="bee generate view"
alias g:mi="bee generate migration"

These can be stored in, for example, your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc files.

Help

If you happend to forget the usage of a command, you can always find the usage information by bee help <command>.

For instance, to get more information about the run command:

$ bee help run
usage: bee run [appname] [watchall] [-main=*.go] [-downdoc=true]  [-gendoc=true]

start the appname throw exec.Command

then start a inotify watch for current dir
										
when the file has changed bee will auto go build and restart the app

	file changed
	     |
  check if it's go file
	     |
     yes     no
      |       |
 go build    do nothing
     |
 restart app