LFR

lfr is an unofficial CLI tool written in Go that helps you create & manage Liferay projects.

Motivation

I needed a subject to play with Go. Writing a CLI tool is fun - especially with Cobra - and I wanted to explore how to distribute it using GitHub Actions (and GoReleaser).

Also, I get sometimes frustrated by Blade and wanted to focus on providing:

• Better performances (cf. benchmarks)
• Better support for Maven
• Shorter commands
• More consistent commands names and ordering
• Details after any command execution
• Shell completion

I'm not the only one motivated to help Liferay developpers with new dev tools. If you're looking for something to help you with Client Extensions development, definitely checkout this tool: https://github.com/bnheise/ce-cli

Installation

For macOS or Linux, you can install it using Homebrew:

brew tap lgdd/homebrew-tap
brew install lfr-cli

if you already installed it using brew install liferay-cli, make sure to run brew update to be able to update to the latest version matching the new name.

For Windows, go to the release page and download the zip file corresponding to your architecture. Then extract lfr.exe from the archive and move to the folder of your choice. Make sure that the chosen folder is included in the %PATH% environment variable.

Usage

Checkout the documentation (work in progress).

Benchmarks

Using Hyperfine with 5 warmup runs and the following setup:

• blade version 6.0.0.202404102137
• lfr version v3.0.0

Create Workspace (Gradle)

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
lfr c ws liferayws	179.5 ± 17.2	165.9	237.1	1.00
blade init -v 7.4 liferayws	719.6 ± 7.2	709.5	728.9	4.01 ± 0.39

Summary: lfr c ws liferayws ran 4.01 ± 0.39 times faster than blade init -v 7.4 liferayws

Create MVC Portlet

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
lfr c mvc my-mvc-portlet	23.0 ± 4.4	20.5	47.0	1.00
blade create -t mvc-portlet my-mvc-portlet	710.3 ± 6.1	703.6	720.5	30.82 ± 5.94

Summary: lfr c mvc my-mvc-portlet ran 30.82 ± 5.94 times faster than blade create -t mvc-portlet my-mvc-portlet

Create Service Builder

Command	Mean [s]	Min [s]	Max [s]	Relative
lfr create sb my-service-builder	19.8 ± 2.8	17.6	31.2	1.00
blade create -t service-builder my-service-builder	723.8 ± 11.0	708.9	738.8	36.65 ± 5.17

Summary: lfr create sb my-service-builder ran 36.65 ± 5.17 times faster than blade create -t service-builder my-service-builder

License

MIT