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Cake: Developing Addins Part 4

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Cake: Developing Addins Part 4

So I wasn’t ready to give up on making existing Cake tooling work. I have been working on a project at work and I discovered Cake.Powershell and I figured I would give it a try.

The first step would be to include the Cake.Powershell in the Cake file.

#addin nuget:?package=Cake.Powershell

With it added, I made a few tweaks to my Netlify-Deploy task by adding the StartPowershellScript command with the arguments I needed.

Task("Netlify-Deploy")
    .IsDependentOn("Install-Netlify-Cli")
    .IsDependentOn("Build")
    .Does(() => {
        var token = EnvironmentVariable("NETLIFY_PHILLIPSJ");
        var siteId = EnvironmentVariable("NETLIFY_SITEID");
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(token)) {
            throw new Exception("Could not get NETLIFY_PHILLIPSJ environment variable");
        }
        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(siteId)) {
            throw new Exception("Could not get NETLIFY_SITEID environment variable");
        }
        
        StartPowershellScript("./node_modules/.bin/netlify deploy", args => {
            args.Append("p", "output").Append("s", siteId).Append("t", token);
        });
    });

With the previous post and the tweaks made in this one, I can successfully deploy my blog using the netlify-cli with a local install of the cli. I will continue the development of Cake.Netlify, however I wanted to see this through since I started down this path.

Thanks for reading,

Jamie

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