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$20 - $30 seems a bit steep considering it's just a front end for a free open source cli. Are there really that many wordpress developers that are not comfortab

by moondev 10y ago

$20 - $30 seems a bit steep considering it's just a front end for a free open source cli. Are there really that many wordpress developers that are not comfortable with the command line? Also vagrant will be obsolete once docker for osx and windows is out of beta. I think a wordpress targeted app that uses docker instead would be more appealing. Then you could also integrate with gitlab and dockerhub container registries for deployment instead of ssh.

ezekg 10y ago
Baby steps. A very, very small fraction of WordPress developers even do local development, much less use build tools and/or Vagrant. Most of them know how to tinker with a functions.php file, but not much else. It's surprising, but true. Just look at subreddits like r/ProWordPress. Very few are even using Git. This product (the command line utility included) are my way of trying to push WP development forward, out of cowboy coding on a production server or deploying over FTP. I think the price is fair, given that the app will not have any outside dependencies other than VirtualBox and Vagrant. You won't even need a Ruby, because the app comes bundled with Ruby. All build commands can be run inside the VM, which comes stocked with Node, Ruby, PHP and more. There are apps like CodeKit and Tower that are GUI's to command line apps priced for the same price. They sell well, because not every developer is comfortable on the command line. Think of a front-end developer who only does design with HTML/CSS. They don't want to mess with Vagrant or anything like that. They just want to do their job, and most of the time that means coding on an external dev server and uploading via FTP.