Common Linux commands that I use when developing web applications.

Web Dev Shell Commands.sh

# stylus compile & watch
stylus public/style/main.styl -w &

npm outdated      # nicest way to list installed modules
npm ls            # list installed modules & dependencies
npm ls -g         # list globally installed node modules
npm update        # check for updated versions of modules in the current package
npm view {pkg}    # view a package's published metadata
npm install {pkg} --save      # install the latest version of a package and add it to your package.json's dependencies
npm install {pkg} --save-dev  # install and save as a devDependency
sudo npm install {pkg} -g

npm version [major|minor|patch|build]   # bump the version number
npm publish


# start app
node app.js

# start app with supervisor (ignoring files in /public)
supervisor -i public app.js

# mongo
mongod &			    # start server
mongo booksimple	# interactive shell on the booksimple database
db.users.remove()	# if you need to remove the users
db.dropDatabase() # remove the current database
smog              # handy web console

# curl
curl https://raw.github.com/RaineOrShine/rjs/master/rjs.js > rjs.js

# heroku
heroku login			          # login to heroku
heroku create               # create a new app (requirements: git repo, package.json, Procfile)
heroku create -r production # create a new app with a remote named 'production'
git push heroku master	    # push to the remote named heroku
heroku open                 # open the app in a web browser
foreman start    	          # test app locally

heroku addons:add zerigo_dns:basic
heroku domains:add mydomain.com
heroku domains:remove mydomain.com
# a.ns.zerigo.net
# b.ns.zerigo.net
# c.ns.zerigo.net
# d.ns.zerigo.net
# e.ns.zerigo.net

heroku ps:scale web=1	  # scale the web process
heroku ps 				      # list running processes
heroku config
heroku config:pull --overwrite --interactive
heroku logs
heroku run node			    # run one-off commands

coffee -cw ./
coffee -o scripts/out/ -cw scripts/src/ &

bower install
bower install jquery --save
bower list

foreman start   # launch Procfile-based apps locally
yo webapp       # scaffold an entire web app using yeoman

grunt           # run the default tasks
grunt build     # run a specific task
grunt clean:js  # pass arguments to a task