Name: Launch a New Lesson From a Keyboard Shortcut
Uploaded: 2020-04-01T23:08:10-05:00
Description: Using Alfred, you can map a global keyboard shortcut to the process of cloning a lesson template repo and firing up your demo.

Overview of Automate Everything

Create a Lesson Template

Create Repos on Github from the CLI with hub

Automate Lesson Creation From Templates With ZSH Functions

Branch and Create a Lesson in a Single ZSH Function

Add Conditions to ZSH Functions to Prevent Mistakes

Launch a New Lesson From a Keyboard Shortcut

Select a Lesson Template From an Alfred Workflow

Create a Command Line Tool for Your Favorite Node Utility

Create a VS Code Extension to Pass Arguments to the Terminal

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Automate Everything: An egghead Guide to Productivity

Using Alfred, you can map a global keyboard shortcut to the process of cloning a lesson template repo and firing up your demo.

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Instructor: [0:00] While typing "+vanilla my new lesson" is really fast, let's see if we can make this even faster by creating a blank workflow in Alfred, naming this New Egghead Lesson with whatever ID. Click create. We'll right click to add a hotkey. Let's say command ALT L. Hit save.

[0:25] We want command ALT L to open an input. We'll use keyword of lesson. It doesn't really matter what you put there since we're using the keyboard shortcut. Leave "with space" and "argument required" as defaults. Hit save there, and we can link these together.

[0:42] The last thing we want it to do is run a script. We'll make this ZSH. We need to make sure to source our .zshrc, so we can grab the +vanilla command, and then $1 will be that first argument which it will get from here. We'll connect these. If you look at the debugger, once I hit command ALT L, this will pop up.

[1:06] I can type my-amazing-lesson, hit enter. You'll see it passing the output to my run script. In the background, now it is cloning and installing everything from my Vanilla template as we configured. Now it's done, and I didn't touch anything. It popped open code and a window running anything I type here.

Launch a New Lesson From a Keyboard Shortcut

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Automate Everything: An egghead Guide to Productivity