Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
dotenv
Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects. (by motdotla)
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9.3 | 9.0 | |
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MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Inquirer.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Inquirer.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
Inquirer.js is a handy tool for adding interactive prompts to your CLI.
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Painless CLI integration testing
There is a CLI application based on Inquirer. Potentially, it could be another CLI library, say something from the following list. Our goal is to provide integration tests. But before that, let's look at the related terminology.
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Interactive Node JS command line
inquirer
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Custom File Generator Tutorial
If you boil plop down to its core, it is basically glue code between inquirer prompts and handlebar templates.
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Command Line Application: Bank Loan Tracker [Node]
This is a new tutorial on how to create a command line interface application, and our application today is a Mortgage Calculator. I used in this program packages such as 1- inquirer for interactive questions and answers: https://www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer 2- Sqlite3 DBMS 3- Chalk for colorful output in the terminal: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk
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Let’s create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
We can easily achieve that with the inquirer package. This package allows you to ask different types of questions, such as input questions (open-text questions), confirmation questions (Yes/No), etc.
dotenv
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotenv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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Tutorial: React + Emailjs
We will put our Emailjs environment variables in a dotenv (.env) file. To read more about the purpose of this file click here.
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How to Use Environment Variables in Node.js
Add .env to your .gitignore file to prevent it from being committed. Here's an example file with it already added. You may also use dotenv for advanced configuration and it will automatically load environment variables from a .env file into process.env.
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dotenv: Designed to load environment variables from a .env file into the process.env environment
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Like Doppler, Infisical uses environment variable injection. Similar to the Dotenv package for Node, when used in Node, it injects them at run time into the process object of the running app so they're not readable by any other processes or users. They can still be revealed by a crash dump or logging, so that is a caveat to consider in your code and build scripts.
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An intro to Appwrite | Building a To-do list with SvelteKit
We'll be working with databases' ids and different info that should be secured so I would advise you to create a .env file to store said info. We'll do this by installing dotenv into our project and use it accordingly:
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dotenv - For reading our API keys from the environment
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A decade of dotenv
As an avid dotenv user I wanted to thank their maintainers for keeping the project alive for 10 years (wow). A perfect exemplary of dedication to Open Source.
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Automate Your Way to Faster Deployments: CI/CD for MERN Apps
Sensitive data like database URLs, API keys, and passwords should never be hardcoded in your application code. Instead, use environment variables accessed at runtime to keep this information secret. Popular dotenv libraries like dotenv make this easy for Node.js apps.
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing Inquirer.js and dotenv you can also consider the following projects:
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
cross-env
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
multiline
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
hardhat-deploy - hardhat deployment plugin
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
config - configuration library for JVM languages using HOCON files