CLI to deploy UI5 sources to an ABAP application server

Deploying UI5 apps to an ABAP application server from a local development environment or a CD pipeline is always a hot discussion topic in projects. SAP itself provides some tools, but still with some gaps.

In the past I developed already deployment options for the

• (meanwhile outdated) Grunt UI5 tooling chain: Grunt plugin to upload UI5 sources to NetWeaver ABAP | SAP Blogs
• UI5 Tooling: UI5 Tooling Custom Task to deploy UI5 sources to an ABAP server | SAP Blogs

In the past I was asked several times if I could provide the option to deploy a UI5 app by a pure CLI tooling (without using a task runner or the UI5 Tooling). Now I sat down and implemented such a  tooling. It is called ui5-nwabap-deployer-cli and uses the same deployer core functionality like the Grunt and UI5 tooling tasks. Because of that of course the same functionality is available (like the automatic creation of a new transport, usage of a transport in which the application is already locked, recalculation of application index, …). For all the details, follow the link to the ui5-nwabap-deployer-cli npm package.

In short, how can you use the CLI tooling.

1st – install it

npm install -g ui5-nwabap-deployer-cli

2nd – provide required configuration in a configuration file (all configuration can be passed as command line arguments too of course); by default a configuration file .ui5deployrc is checked; an example can be:

{
    "cwd": "./dist",
    "files": "**/*.*",
    "server": "http://vhcala4hci:50000",
    "client": "001",
    "useStrictSSL": false,
    "package": "ZZ_UI5_REPOSITORY",
    "bspContainer": "ZZ_UI5_TEST",
    "bspContainerText": "Test UI5 Upload",
    "createTransport": true,
    "transportUseLocked": true
    "calculateApplicationIndex": true
}

3rd – deploy your application

ui5-deployer deploy --user DEVELOPER --pwd myCrazyPassword

That’s it.

In case of questions, remarks or other things, feel free to comment or write me a message.

Cheers