https://profiq-gitignore-production.glb.edgio.link/

Generate your project-specific .gitignore: Perfectly crafted for your tech stack

Simple webpage and api to generate .gitignore files for your project.

• https://gitignore.profiq.com/api/search?query=<search_query>
• Searches for technologies that match the search_query
• Returns list of technologies that match the search_query

• https://gitignore.profiq.com/api/result?options=<options_list>&remDupl=<remove_duplicates>
• Generates .gitignore file for given options
• options_list is a list of technologies separated by comma
• remove_duplicates is a boolean value that indicates whether to remove duplicate lines from the result, default is true

• Use Yarn as the package manager for this project.
• Make sure to include a yarn.lock file in the project repository.
• When adding or updating dependencies, use

yarn add

or respetively

yarn upgrade

• Clone the project repository using

git clone https://github.com/profiq/gitignore

• Navigate to the project directory using

cd gitignore

• Clone Toptal templates using

yarn clone-templates

• Install project dependencies using

yarn install

• Run the project locally using

yarn dev

• Create a new branch for each feature or bug fix using

git checkout -b <branch-name>

• Commit changes frequently with descriptive commit messages using

git commit -m "<commit-message>"

• Push changes to the remote repository using

git push origin <branch-name>

• Create a pull request for code review and merge into the main branch.
• On every pull request, the code will be automatically tested and deployed to preview environment.

• Write unit tests for all new features and bug fixes.
• Run tests using

yarn test

• Make sure all tests pass before merging changes.

• Follow the project's coding conventions and style guide.
• Use a linter to enforce code style rules.
• Format code using

yarn format

• All changed files are also formatted automatically on every commit.

• For sake of ability to search templates without exact match, techOptions.json file is compiled using update-tech-options/update-list.mjs script run weekly
• techOptions.json is map with keys being possible keywords for search and values actual technology names
• To understand the structure of the templates, please check https://github.com/toptal/gitignore
• To combine templates, patch and stack files and also to deal with link files, the update-tech-options/update-list.mjs script generates also techOptionsFiles.json file where for each technology there is a list of files that should be combined to get the final template

• runs on PR and push to the main branch
• tests building the project
• checks prettier
• runs unit tests

• Runs weekly to update techOptions.json and techOptionsFiles.json files if the template structure changed
• If the structure of the templates changed, new PR is created

• The project is deployed to Edgio
• organization: profiq
• property: gitignore
• There are 3 deployment workflows for 3 environments: preview, production and dev, each of them has similar steps:
  • checkout the code
  • get node_modules cache
  • install dependencies
  • clone Toptal templates
  • build and deploy the project to the environment
• To deploy project locally using Edgio, run

edg build && edg run -p

• runs on every PR to deploy the preview environment
• adds a comment to the PR with the link to the proper preview

• runs on release to deploy the production environment
• https://profiq-gitignore-production.glb.edgio.link/

• runs on every push to the main branch to deploy preview of current state of the main branch
• https://profiq-gitignore-dev.glb.edgio.link