Unclear usage of asyncapi start

[Lazzaretti]

Describe the bug

To me it is unclear how you use asyncapi start.

How to Reproduce

1. Run command asyncapi
2. you see the command explanation
   start Start asyncapi studio
3. Run command asyncapi start
4. You get a help text.

Start asyncapi studio

USAGE
  $ asyncapi start

DESCRIPTION
  Start asyncapi studio

COMMANDS
  start studio  starts a new local instance of Studio

Expected behavior

"Start asyncapi studio" - as described in the help text.

Probably related to #551

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[peter-rr]

Hi @Lazzaretti
Totally agree with the unclear usage of asyncapi start 👍 . Actually this is gonna be included as part of new UI/UX improvements for the CLI: #1214.

Could you please remove the "bug" label since we should consider this issue as an improvement or enhancement instead?
Thank you for reporting :)

[Lazzaretti]

Hi @peter-rr, cool that you want to change this :)

Unfortunately, I can't remove the bug label; I think this can only be done by a contributor (my name is only there because on creation, you can select "bug").

[peter-rr]

@Lazzaretti
I guess that can only be changed by the repository maintainers. Let me ping them.

@derberg @Souvikns @magicmatatjahu
Could you change this issue's label from bug to enhancement? Thanks!

[AayushSaini101]

@Souvikns @peter-rr I am bit confused here, do we need to start studio instead of generating this text.Start asyncapi studio
?

USAGE
  $ asyncapi start

DESCRIPTION
  Start asyncapi studio

COMMANDS
  start studio  starts a new local instance of Studio

[peter-rr]

@AayushSaini101 According to how it's implemented the start command currently, when we run asyncapi start we're just executing the index.ts subcommand, showing the "help" section. To start a new studio instance we need to run: asyncapi start studio -f <specFile_path>.

I agree it's not very DX friendly, though 🤔

[AayushSaini101]

@AayushSaini101 According to how it's implemented the start command currently, when we run asyncapi start we're just executing the index.ts subcommand, showing the "help" section. To start a new studio instance we need to run: asyncapi start studio -f specFile_path.

I agree it's not very DX friendly, though 🤔

@peter-rr @Amzani I am willing to work on it

[AayushSaini101]

@AayushSaini101 According to how it's implemented the start command currently, when we run asyncapi start we're just executing the index.ts subcommand, showing the "help" section. To start a new studio instance we need to run: asyncapi start studio -f <specFile_path>.

I agree it's not very DX friendly, though 🤔

@peter-rr Why we cannot remove the asyncapi start command and use only asyncapi start studio, because the description of the asyncapi start is Start asyncapi studio🤔

[peter-rr]

@peter-rr Why we cannot remove the asyncapi start command and use only asyncapi start studio, because the description of the asyncapi start is Start asyncapi studio🤔

Yeah, that was something we already discussed on #551.
I guess the asyncapi start command was designed originally for other purposes, to "start" different processes like studio, for instance. That's why index.ts is located under start folder. But no more subcommands have been added so far, so I don't think this makes sense anymore.

I believe we should rid off this index.ts file and just keep studio.ts. Also we could rename the command as simply asyncapi studio, which would be more DX friendly from my point of view. Any thoughts on that? @Souvikns @Shurtu-gal @Amzani

[peter-rr]

@AayushSaini101
Please take a look at my comment on this PR, maybe that change can justify the use of index.ts for asyncapi start 🤔

[Amzani]

We can just change the help text @peter-rr,
As mentioned https://github.com/asyncapi/cli?tab=readme-ov-file#command-structure-and-patterns this command might evolve in the future depending on:

• Do we add more sub-commands to studio, for example synchronization then it will make sense to add a studio noun, and then we will have: asyncapi studio start and asyncapi studio sync
• Do we add an API as mentioned in feat: new CLI architecture (part 1) #1200, then we will have asyncapi start api

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