Google Apps Script for Developers

Google Apps Script makes it is simple for you to coordinate information and usefulness from Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, YouTube, and most other Google APIs. Applications Script is JavaScript in the engine so you don't need to get familiar with another dialect and you don't need to deal with any servers since all your code keeps running on the Google Cloud, not your program.

Current Development with Google Apps Script 

1. There are many favorable circumstances with having a neighborhood improvement condition versus composing code in the Apps Script Cloud IDE. 

2. You can compose code with ES6 Classes, Arrow Functions, Modules, Destructing and utilize the various current JavaScript highlights. 

3. The advancement experience inside VS Code is unparalleled and instruments like ESLint and Prettier make it simpler for you to get blunders right off the bat in the improvement. 

4. The construct and arrangement procedure can be totally mechanized with NPM contents and CLASP, Google's direction line utility for Apps Script. 

5. Versus Code has worked in help for Git and coordinates with source control suppliers like Github and Gitlab. It is along these lines simpler to track changes and reestablish past forms of the code. 

6. You can rapidly incorporate JavaScript libraries like LoDash, Moment, Underscore and any of the NPM bundles into your code. 

7. You can utilize current systems like React, Vue.js and Angular to assemble the HTML frontend that associates with the backend with the Google Script Client API.

Beginning with the Apps Script Starter

The Starter Kit is a standard for rapidly beginning with neighborhood Apps Script improvement locally inside VS Code. Open your terminal and run the accompanying directions:

1. Clone the Github repository to a local folder

git clone https://github.com/labnol/apps-script-start my-project

2. Switch to the project folder

cd my-project

3. Install all the project dependencies and utilities

npm install

4. Connect CLASP to your Google account

npx clasp login

5. Create a new Google Apps Script project in your Google Drive with CLASP

npx clasp create "My Project" --rootDir ./dist

This order will make another .clasp.json document in your undertaking organizer that connections the nearby envelope with your Apps Script venture. During assemble, Webpack will package all your code in a solitary JavaScript record and add it to the ./dist envelope that Clasp will push to your Apps Script venture.

Next, open the present task organizer inside VS Code with the code . order. It incorporates some example code yet we will begin with a clear organizer so erase everything that is inside the src envelope. 

Inside the src envelope, make another record – email.js – and compose a basic bolt work that prints a rundown of all the email delivers associated with your Gmail account.

Next, make an index.js document (section point) in the src organizer, import the email work that you've made inside the email.js record and add it to the worldwide article. This is a necessity of the Webpack module for Google Apps Script. 

You can likewise add a capacity articulation to the worldwide article straightforwardly, as doGet in the model underneath.

Since your JavaScript code is prepared, open the appsscript.json record in your undertaking organizer and alter the OAuth scope property to just incorporate the extensions that are required by your task.

Next, jump to the command line terminal and run the deploy command to push your code to the Apps Script project.

npm run deploy

After the deployment is complete, open the associated script in the browser with the CLASP open command.

npx clasp open

Inside the Apps Script Editor, go to the Run menu and choose the getEmailAddress function from the list. Open the logs and you should see your email addresses in the window.

At that point go to the Publish menu, pick Deploy as web application and open the URL in another program tab to check the program yield. That is that it is so natural to fabricate ventures with the Google Apps Script starter pack.

Utilizing Git with Google Apps Script

Make another storehouse in Github and make a note of the URL of the new vault. Next, open the terminal and run the accompanying directions to push your Apps Script undertaking to Github.