Add support to load settings from options (flag) and default to specific options

Summary: This change gives priority to a user option settingsString to set up the flipper-server configuration and load them from a json string. Also giving the user the chance to avoid flipper-server looking at the launcher config files in the computer

Reviewed By: mweststrate

Differential Revision: D34210110

fbshipit-source-id: 9e852b79da106b5140c59116fd7d0c0f3155e620

desktop/flipper-server/src/index.tsx

@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ const argv = yargs
       type: 'boolean',
       default: false,
     },
+    settingsString: {
+      describe: `override the existing defaults settings of flipper (settings.json file) e.g "{"androidHome":"/usr/local/bin","enableAndroid":true}"`,
+      type: 'string',
+      default: '',
+    },
+    launcherSettings: {
+      describe:
+        'Open Flipper with the configuration stored in .config folder for the launcher',
+      type: 'boolean',
+      default: true,
+    },
   })
   .version('DEV')
   .help()
@@ -71,7 +82,12 @@ async function start() {
     staticDir,
     entry: 'index.web.dev.html',
   });
-  const flipperServer = await startFlipperServer(rootDir, staticDir);
+  const flipperServer = await startFlipperServer(
+    rootDir,
+    staticDir,
+    argv.settingsString,
+    argv.launcherSettings,
+  );
   if (argv.failFast) {
     flipperServer.on('server-state', ({state}) => {
       if (state === 'error') {

desktop/flipper-server/src/startFlipperServer.tsx

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ import fs from 'fs';
 export async function startFlipperServer(
   rootDir: string,
   staticPath: string,
+  settingsString: string,
+  enableLauncherSettings: boolean,
 ): Promise<FlipperServerImpl> {
   if (os.platform() === 'darwin') {
     // By default Node.JS has its internal certificate storage and doesn't use
@@ -85,9 +87,9 @@ export async function startFlipperServer(
         tempPath: os.tmpdir(),
         desktopPath: desktopPath,
       },
-      launcherSettings: await loadLauncherSettings(),
+      launcherSettings: await loadLauncherSettings(enableLauncherSettings),
       processConfig: loadProcessConfig(env),
-      settings: await loadSettings(),
+      settings: await loadSettings(settingsString),
       validWebSocketOrigins: ['localhost:', 'http://localhost:'],
     },
     logger,