dagger/docs/learn/1010-dev-cue-package.md

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Develop a new CUE package for Dagger

This tutorial illustrates how to create new packages, manually distribute them among your applications and contribute to the Dagger stdlib packages.

Creating your package

Initializing project

Create an empty directory for your new Dagger project:

mkdir project
cd project

As described in the previous tutorials, initialize your Dagger project:

dagger init

That will create two directories: .dagger and cue.mod, where our package will reside:

.
├── cue.mod
│   ├── module.cue
│   ├── pkg
│   └── usr
├── .dagger
│   └── env

Writing the package

Now that you've initialized your project, it's time to write a simple package. Package name usually starts with a domain name (as in Go) followed by a descriptive name. In this example, we reuse the Cloud Run example and create a package from it.

mkdir -p cue.mod/pkg/github.com/tjovicic/gcpcloudrun

Let's write the package logic. It is basically what we've seen in the 106-cloudrun example:

touch cue.mod/pkg/github.com/tjovicic/gcpcloudrun/source.cue

Running the package

Now that you've successfully created a package let's run it in a new environment. Create a new test package using our reusable gcpcloudrun:

Run it:

dagger up -e staging

You should see a familiar output:

9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.src
9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.imageRef
9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.gcpConfig.region
9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.gcpConfig.project
9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.gcpConfig.serviceKey
9:32AM ERR system | required input is missing    input=run.deploy.name
9:32AM FTL system | some required inputs are not set, please re-run with `--force` if you think it's a mistake    missing=0s

Manually distributing packages

You've probably guessed this package isn't tied to just your project. You can easily copy/paste it into any number of different projects and use it as we've shown above.

mkdir -p /my-new-project/cue.mod/pkg/github.com/tjovicic/gcpcloudrun
cp ./cue.mod/pkg/github.com/tjovicic/gcpcloudrun/source.cue /new-project/cue.mod/pkg/github.com/tjovicic/gcpcloudrun

Contributing to Dagger stdlib

Our stdlib has many valuable packages that you can use. You've probably seen it when you've initialized your project:

.
├── cue.mod
│   ├── module.cue
│   ├── pkg
│   │   ├── alpha.dagger.io
│   │   └── .gitignore
│   └── usr

We are still a small community and are constantly looking for new contributors that will work with us to improve this fantastic project. If you feel like we are missing a package or want to improve an existing one, please start with our contributing docs and open a PR.