❔ About

Back in 2019, while trying to send notifications for a personal (Arduino MKR WiFi 1010) IoT project :

Making legacy mailboxes smarter with Arduino IoT Cloud platform and IFTTT

Less than a year ago, I started to look forward 3d printing and Arduino, wondering how to create useful things with the little knowledge I had, and also, serverless, I mean only by relying on SaaS services so I can only focus on my part and deploy production ready services. Idea Genesis This year th

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Well... I felt the need to send sms... and used IFTTT to achieve this... but also discovered Twilio... and started to follow them on social medias.

😮 The post that teased me

Then... one day.. I discovered that blog post :

Explaining step by step how to build from scratch a Java Client to send sms based on :

• Twilio SMS API : "API that helps you add robust messaging capabilities to your applications."
• SDKMAN! : "a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits"
• JBang! : "edit and run self-contained source-only Java programs with unprecedented ease."
• picocli : "a mighty tiny command line interface"

Finally I saw the conclusion :

Even better I saw the following tweet :

Matthew (he/him) ❤️

@maximumgilliard

That tweet can be run directly by jbang to send you an SMS:

1/ Have a Twilio account (twilio.com/try-twilio)
2/ Export these env vars:
S=<your account Sid>
T=<your auth Token>
To=<your cell number>
Frm=<your twilio phone number>

then:
jbang <URL OF THAT TWEET> twitter.com/MaximumGilliar…

20:20 PM - 27 Jul 2020

Matthew (he/him) ❤️ @MaximumGilliard

//DEPS com.twilio.sdk:twilio:7.54.1 import com.twilio.type.PhoneNumber com.twilio.Twilio.init(System.getenv("S"),System.getenv("T")) https://t.co/H56vowlqYz.api.v2010.account.Message.creator(new PhoneNumber(System.getenv("To")),new PhoneNumber(System.getenv("Frm")),"🐴").create()

I was mesmerized by the simplicity and started to think...

🤔 "One day, we will implement this at the office"

🔭 Start dreaming

Since that day, I neved stopped dreaming about the opportunity to create such a cli ❣️

I mean... like....

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🍀 The opportunity

Then one day the opportunity came : my Team was in charge of creating a new batch that should :

✅ Use our internal sms API
✅ Send sms in a batch mode while taking csv as input

That was it, we had the opportunity to create something clean and cool around the sms experience :

We would create a nicely, efficient and well designed cli 🤗

🚀 Straight to the MVP

📜 cli guidelines

First, we wanted to build a userexperience around the cli to make it also as much user-friendly as possible.

Therefore we started to learn more about cli design best practices :

• 10 design principles for delightful CLIs

Then this site which is an amazing set of dedicated resources:

👉 You can folllow the underlying repo :

$ brew install hugo
$ cd <path>/<to>/cli-guidelines/
$ hugo server

hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --baseURL http://$(hostname -f):1313

✨ Finally... the first sms

Finally, our first MVP was up... from the terminal :

to the mobile phone :

🛤️ Roadmap

Next steps are :

• Refactoring for better performances
• Reporting features
• Implement csv send mode in batch
• cli packaging using JReleaser to ease its distribution (Docker, Homebrew, Macports, native,...)

🍿 Demo

Finally we could manage go get a new experience.

Discover below the software in its very early stages :

🔖 Resources

• Twilio on RapidAPI
• Twilio Blog
• #twilio on DEV.to

📑 SMS APIs

• Free SMS APIs
• Twilio SMS

🐦 Twitter accounts worth following 🥇

• Matthew (he/him) : @MaximumGilliard
• Ben Firshman : @bfirsh
• Carl Tashian : @tashian
• Eva Parish : @evpari
• @twilio
• @picocli
• @jbangdev
• @jreleaser

Stay tuned for more 😊.