roku-deploy

Publish Roku projects to a Roku device by using Node.js.

Installation

npm install roku-deploy

Requirements

1. Your project must be structured the way that Roku expects. The source files can be in a subdirectory (using the rootDir config option), but whever your roku files exist, they must align with the following folder structure:

   components/
   images/
   source/
   manifest

2. You should create a rokudeploy.json file at the root of your project that contains all of the overrides to the default options. roku-deploy will auto-detect this file and use it when possible.

sample rokudeploy.json

{
    "host": "192.168.1.101",
    "password": "securePassword"
}

Usage

From a node script

var rokuDeploy = require('roku-deploy');

rokuDeploy.deploy({
    host: 'ip-of-roku',
    password: 'password for roku dev admin portal'
    //other options if necessary
}).then(function(){
    //it worked
}, function(){
    //it failed
});

From an npm script in package.json. (Requires rokudeploy.json to exist at the root level where this is being run)

{
    "scripts": {
        "deploy": "roku-deploy"
    }
}

Options

Here are the available options. The defaults are shown to the right of the option name, but all can be overridden:

• host: string (required)
  The IP address or hostname of the target Roku device. Example: "192.168.1.21"

• password: string (required)
  The password for logging in to the developer portal on the target Roku device

• outDir?: string = "./out"
  A full path to the folder where the zip package should be placed

• outFile?: string = "roku-deploy.zip"
  The name the zip file should be given.

• rootDir?: string = './'
  The root path to the folder holding your project. The manifest file should be directly underneath this folder. Use this option when your roku project is in a subdirectory of where roku-deploy is installed.

• files?: ( string | { src: string; dest: string; } ) [] =

  [
      "source/**/*.*",
      "components/**/*.*",
      "images/**/*.*",
      "manifest"
  ]

  An array of file paths, globs, or {src:string;dest:string} objects that will be copied into the deployment package.

  Using the {src;dest} objects will allow you to move files into different destination paths in the deployment package. This would be useful for copying environment-specific configs into a common config location (i.e. copy from "ProjectRoot\configs\dev.config.json" to "roku-deploy.zip\config.json"). Here's a sample:

  //deploy configs/dev.config.json as config.json
  {
       "src": "configs/dev.config.json",
       "dest": "config.json"
  }

  //you can omit the filename in dest if you want the file to keep its name. Just end dest with a trailing slash.
  {
      "src": "languages/english/language.xml",
      "dest": "languages/"
  }
  

  This will result in the [sourceFolder]/configs/dev.config.json file being copied to the zip file and named "config.json".

  You can also provide negated globs (thanks to glob-all). So something like this would include all component files EXCEPT for specs.

  files: [
      'components/**/*.*',
      '!components/**/*.spec.*'
  ]

  NOTE: If you override this "files" property, you need to provide all config values, as your array will completely overwrite the default.

• retainStagingFolder?: boolean = false
  Set this to true prevent the staging folder from being deleted after creating the package. This is helpful for troubleshooting why your package isn't being created the way you expected.

• username?: string = "rokudev"
  The username for the roku box. This will always be 'rokudev', but allow to be passed in just in case roku adds support for custom usernames in the future

Click here to see the typescript interface for these options