Create custom recipes with the recipe builder
Have you found a recipe in Moderne where you only want to run certain parts of it? Or have you found a few recipes that you want to combine into one larger recipe? Or maybe you want to run a bunch of recipes in a specific order?
Introduction to type-aware code search
Imagine you're an author of a Java library. You've defined an abstract base class and you want to figure out if people are using a specific method defined in that class. It wouldn't be too difficult to search in the repository where the class was defined, but what if there are hundreds or thousands of repositories that are potentially using it or some subclass of it? Searching for the method name might return thousands of irrelevant matches. A human would certainly struggle to do this search within a reasonable amount of time.
Moderne Recipe catalog search
In order to get the most out of the Moderne Platform, it's a good idea to understand how you can effectively search for recipes.
Recipe execution and commits with the Moderne API
Imagine you found a recipe you would like to run as part of your organization's automation process (such as updating the Gradle plugin version when a new release is published). Rather than manually running this recipe each time, you can use Moderne's GraphQL API to speed this process up with automation.
Accessing the Moderne API
Moderne offers a GraphQL API for customers to interact with through the usage of a personal access token. In this doc, we'll walk through everything you need to know to access and use this API.
How to find personally identifiable information (PII) and secrets exposed by your APIs
As companies grow in size, more and more APIs tend to be added. As these APIs are added, it becomes exponentially more difficult to track how sensitive information flows throughout the code base. Despite best intentions, it can be quite easy for PII or secrets to be accidentally exposed by an API.
Managing user-configured organizations
When running recipes in Moderne, it's a good idea to filter them to run on a selection of repositories you care about so that you get relevant results more quickly. In filtering these recipes, many people have found that they wanted to create multiple user-configured organizations of repositories that they can easily switch between. Both of these issues can be solved by using user-configured organizations.
Creating a personal access token
In order to use the Moderne GraphQL API, you will need to create a Personal Access Token.
How to use preconditions
When running recipes, there may come a time when you want to restrict which files the recipe runs against. For example, if your company has a large mono-repo, and you only work on part of it, you may want to run a recipe on just that part. Similarly, if you are working on a security or best practice update, you may want to focus only on product code and not on tests.
How to track migration status with Moderne
Dependencies are constantly getting updated with new versions. It can be difficult to ensure one repository is up-to-date – let alone hundreds or thousands of them. While some recipes can help with migrations, it's unrealistic to expect that all repositories will be updated at the same time. In those instances, it's nice to track which versions each repository is using and how they differ from one another.
How to upgrade transitive dependencies
It's a good practice for developers to routinely check if there are any security vulnerabilities in their repositories and ensure that their dependencies are up-to-date. Unfortunately, many tools cannot see dependencies that are more than one level deep. If you have a dependency that has a dependency that has a dependency that is insecure, most tools will not warn you about it – let alone let you update it.
How to find method invocations based on a pattern using AI
Searching for methods across a code base can not only help you learn more about how a particular method functions or how it's used in code, but it can also enable you to perform impact analysis across all of your repositories to see what depends on what. While this is normally a tricky problem due to the limitations of text-based searching, Moderne offers two recipes that allow you to easily and quickly search for methods – even if you don't know the exact name or parameters they're composed of.
How to gain a high-level overview of your codebase using AI clustering
Why is this useful?
Writing and installing recipes
As a user of the Moderne Platform, you're probably run quite a few recipes. However, what if you none of the recipes in the catalog do what you want to do? In that case, you will need to write your own.