Moralis Admin CLI deploy help is not sync with its real usage

Technical Issue Reporting
#1

Moralis Admin CLI not pick up the neither folderPath nor moralisSubdomain from local .env file at the root next to package.json.

This is the script I try to run:

...
"scripts": {
  "deploy": "moralis-admin-cli deploy"
},
...
"devDependencies": {
  ...
  "moralis-admin-cli": "2.1.13"
  ...
}
...

deploy command only works with explicit -p and -d flags, but I do not want to expose those private information.

Summary: moralisApiKey is picked up, but neither the folderPath nor moralisSubdomain

Thanks for helping me, this is an issue for me a long time.

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#2

Hi,
The code from admin cli is like this:
for deploy:

        // Get path of the folder to deploy
        let folderPath = grab('--folderPath') || grab('-p') || '.';

            // get server list
            const servers = await utils.getUserServers();

            // Get selected server
            const server = utils.getSelectedServer(servers.filter(item => item.updateCloudError === 0 && item.update === 0))

and for watchCloudFolder is like this:

    // Get path to the cloud folder
    const folderPath = grab('--moralisCloudfolder') || grab('-p') || process.env.moralisCloudFolder || utils.getFilePath("Specify path to cloud functions folder: ");

    // Get server to use
    let subdomain = grab('--moralisSubdomain') || grab('-d') || process.env.moralisSubdomain;

It looks like the deploy command doesn’t look in process.env for those two variables in particular.

You could modify admin cli source code to handle your case until we find a better solution.

Issue with moralis-admin-cli deploy
#3

I see your point @cryptokid, but then the usage is not in sync with it’s help documentation. (Also could you please show me how can I contribute to the moralis-admin-cli source code, did not find in guthub yet, appreciate)

Run: npx moralis-admin-cli deploy help

The deploy command allows you to publish you dapp to you Moralis server.

The command requires 3 parameters:

--moralisApiKey / -k
This is the API key that lets you authenticate with Moralis via the CLI

--moralisApiSecret / -s
This is the API secret that lets you authenticate with Moralis via the CLI

--moralisSubdomain / -d
The Moralis server you want to deploy to

If left out, you will get to choose from a list.

You can find all three of these (apiKey, apiSecret and subdomain) 
in the Admin panel by clicking on view details 
on the server you are working with.

--folderPath / -p (optional)
The path to the folder where your dapp is located.
 (Default is the folder the command is executed from.)
You can provide these variables in a combination of three ways:

1. Provide them as arguments to the command 
Example: 
moralis-admin-cli deploy --moralisApiKey d4djh56kjhgkj535

2. Specify the arguments in a .env file located in the same 
directory when running the command.
Example: 
moralisApiKey=d4djh56kjhgkj535

3. Store the variables as environment variables on the machine.

Anyway thanks for the source code details :slight_smile: