Bean & Bark: learn the CLI by shipping

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You may have met Bean & Bark before — the coffee roaster whose orders fill a DynamoDB table in our DynoStudio tutorial. Here you own the releases around that business: the Orders API, the Pricing SDK shared after a bad Friday, and Roastery Desk on three operating systems. A real situation lands on your desk each chapter, and you work it with the CLI.

This isn't a flag-by-flag reference (that exists — see the CLI overview). Each chapter is a situation with a clock on it: the founder needs the API up before a tasting, a secret can't live in git, Friday's deploy breaks and the fix is a calm two commands. Every terminal output you see in these pages is the real thing — matched to what the CLI actually prints, so you always know what success looks like before you run it.

Start at the top and use the Next button, or jump straight to the job you have right now:

Ship before the tasting
One command to a deploy-ready service, an offline health check, your first deploy to dev — and the ledger entry that proves exactly what shipped.
The secret nobody wrote down
Wire the real database and an API key in without either touching git — then reproduce a dev-only bug on your laptop by pulling the stage's real env into the process.
The bad Friday deploy
Un-ship a bad revision in two calm commands: read the ledger, flip the live alias back, and mark the broken deploy so nothing ever rolls back onto it.
A teammate joins
Share a library across git repos without folklore: declare it by URL and ref, pin it in a lockfile, and make a fresh clone build byte-identical in three commands.
Release the Pricing SDK
Close the public package graph, catch an already-claimed version, give Tunde an RC, and publish only the bytes he tested.
Ship Roastery Desk
Turn one .NET desktop project into tested macOS, Windows, and Linux downloads, then promote the approved candidate without rebuilding.
Every PR gets a URL
Give each pull request its own throwaway stack with an expiry date — reviewable from the founder's phone, swept automatically when everyone forgets it.
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