Deno Hooks

A husky inspired git hooks manager for Deno.

Zero dependency, lightweight and fast.

Usage

Run the script through Deno in your project/workspace

$ deno run --allow-read --allow-write https://deno.land/x/deno_hooks@0.1.0/mod.ts install

Optionally, add it as a deno task (recommended):

In your projects deno.json file, add it to the task section.

{
    // --snip--
    "tasks": {
        "hook": "deno run --allow-read --allow-write https://deno.land/x/deno_hooks@0.1.0/mod.ts"
    }
}

Now you can run this quickly with deno task hook. Any additional arguments provided after the invocation will get passed to the file.

Commands:

Install it once

$ deno task hook install

This creates a folder called .hooks for your git hooks. You can pass a folder name of your choice too if you want. Defaults to .hooks

Add a hook

$ deno task hook add .hooks/pre-commit "deno fmt --check"

This creates a shell file named pre-commit. Now, everytime u make a commit, git will run the command deno fmt --check to check for formatting errors. If theres no error, the commit passes, otherwise it throws an error and aborts the commit. If u try to add an existing task, then the provided command gets appended to the existing hook file.

You can find a list of all git hooks here. Just add a new hook with the corresponding name to make it work.

Uninstall

$ deno task hook uninstall

This resets git’s hookpath to the default. All hooks in your custom directory becomes unusable after that. You can delete the directory if you want.

Customization

It’s pretty straight forward. So theres nothing much to customize in it. If for some reason you don’t want to run the pre-commit or corresponding hook for a git action u can use the --no-verify flag

$ git commit --no-verify -m "Rip Hooks"

This skips the pre-commit hook. For git actions that dont have a no verify flag, u can use the HOOK environment variable to skip the check. Just pass the value of HOOK as 0

$ HOOK=0 git commit -m "Skipping hook"

If you want to test your git hooks without making a commit, just add exit 1 to the end of your hook file so that git aborts the commit in the end.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
. "$(dirname -- "$0")/_/hook.sh"

deno lint
deno fmt --check
exit 1

The hook files themselves need to be shell scripts, but you can run external scripts from it.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
. "$(dirname -- "$0")/_/hook.sh"

# Running a ts file with deno
deno run scripts/test.ts

# Or maybe running a python file
python script.py

Using with non-deno projects

The module only depends on deno to run, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be used only in a deno project. Unlike husky or npm, deno doesnt have anything like a package.json file, so as long as you have deno, u can use it in any project without any extra config files.

Credits

This project was completely inspired by typicode’s husky and most of the code adapted from husky’s code too. If you like this project, consider giving husky’s repository a visit too. Please star this project if it was useful to you.

Author

Released under MIT License.