• 2023-07-26
• gscript,
• clasp

Google Clasp

Very useful if you work with Google Apps Script.

I've been writing Google Apps Scripts for a while, but only recently discovered that Google has a command-line tool called clasp.

It's a node-based tool and is generally pretty slow, but it makes it much easier to write code in a local IDE and then clasp push it to Google Drive. It has some weird semantics (i.e. it's not version controlled) and is tied to a global login. It also won't let you push anything with a syntax error in it which is similar to the web-based version.

The error messages are generally pretty good, but one thing you need to remember to do is to enable Google Apps Script API.