Learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server: Adopt clasp for easier offline development, versioning, and deployment

[mckennapsean]

Google has an NPM tool to work with Google Script. It can do versioning and possibly deployment all from the command line. This could let me simplify & automate steps to get changes to the project out the door faster. This will help keep the repo in sync with Google Script too, so it's a pretty big win-win.

https://github.com/google/clasp

[nelsonic]

@mckennapsean _agree_ that Clasp looks _really_ good. 👍

If we can explore using it _either_ from the perspective of a _complete beginner_
(_how much work is it to install & understand clasp before a beginner can be productive?_)
or we can add it as an "Advanced" section of the tutorial for people who want a more sophisticated way of managing their script(s).

Either way I'm _excited_! Let us know what you decide. 😉

[mckennapsean]

my plan is to get it implemented here for my own sake so that deploying and testing the script is faster & easier.

the tutorial would remain unchanged.

we could add it to the advanced section if we wanted to show people how to use it, but I doubt it's worth the extra hassle since they'd still need to set up the script to start with I think. but if someone wants to copy the repo or use clasp then adding it to the advanced section may be good to do later 👍

[mckennapsean]

Could also consider CI/CD Actions API for some deployment aspects.
https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/