DEVELOPMENT.md

AEM Compose

Universal tool to manage AEM instances everywhere!

Developer setup

Prerequisites

1. Install Go: https://go.dev/doc/install,
2. Set up shell, append lines ~/.zshrc with content below then restart IDE/terminals,

export GOPATH="$HOME/go"
export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"

Building & OS-wide installation

Ensure having installed Go then:

Manual installation (recommended)

Use this method to develop comfortably the tool.

1. Clone repository: git clone git@github.com:wttech/aemc.git
2. Enter cloned directory and run command: make*

*When using Git Bash on Windows, you will first need to add make to your Git Bash installation:

1. Go to ezwinports.
2. Download make-x.x.x-without-guile-w32-bin.zip (get the newest version without guile).
3. Extract zip.
4. Copy the contents to your Git\mingw64\ merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any existing files.

Go installation

Use this method to check particular commit/version of the tool.

• latest released version: go install github.com/wttech/aemc/cmd/aem@latest,
• specific released version: go install github.com/wttech/aemc/cmd/aem@v1.1.9,
• recently committed version: go install github.com/wttech/aemc/cmd/aem@main,

After installing AEM CLI by one of above methods now instruct the wrapper script to use it by running the following command:

export AEM_CLI_VERSION=installed

To start using again version defined in wrapper file, simply unset the environment variable:

unset AEM_CLI_VERSION

Releasing

Simply run script:

sh release.sh <major.minor.patch>

It will:

• bump version is source files automatically,
• commit changes,
• push release tag that will initiate release workflow.