hell

The command line interface (CLI) for the hellbox framework.

Installation

The hell binary can be installed by running the install.sh script from the Hellbox website:

curl https://www.hellbox.io/install.sh -sSf | sh

This will download the pre-compiled binary for your computer's architecture and install it into /usr/bin/local. Mac OS and some linux distributions are currently supported (with Windows support to come).

Commands

hell init

Sets up a new project by:

• Creating a new Python 3 virtual environment
• Installing hellbox and creating a Pipfile
• Creating a minimal Hellfile.py for defining tasks

hell run {task}

Runs the task defined in Hellfile.py. Defaults to the task named default.

hell install

Installs all packages in Pipfile into the project's Python installation.

hell add {package}

Installs a package using pipenv into the project's Python installation

hell remove {package}

Uninstalls a package using pipenv from the project's Python installation

hell inspect

Loads the Hellfile.py manifest and displays the defined tasks:

│ » build
│   Builds font files from source
╽
┗━ ReadFiles(globs=('source/*.ufo',))
   ┣━ GenerateOtf
   ┃  ┗━ RenameFile(prefix='16th-Century-Gothic-')
   ┃     ┗━ DummyDsig
   ┃        ┗━ Autohint
   ┃           ┗━ Write(path='build/otf')
   ┗━ GenerateTtf
      ┗━ RenameFile(prefix='16th-Century-Gothic-')
         ┗━ DummyDsig
            ┗━ Autohint
               ┣━ GenerateWoff2
               ┃  ┗━ Write(path='build/woff2')
               ┗━ Write(path='build/ttf')