action-contributors VS minicli

In this step-by-step tutorial, we've seen how to create a GitHub action to programmatically update a CONTRIBUTORS file for an open source project, using the Minicli framework for command line applications in PHP. If you'd like to use this action in one of your projects and don't want to build it from scratch, you can head over to the minicli/action-contributors repository on GitHub to set up this action within a workflow on your project. To find more about GitHub actions, you can check the official documentation, and you can also search for practical examples of workflows using Sourcegraph code search.

{ "user": "Erika Heidi", "bio": "Software and Documentation Engineer", "projects": { "minicli/minicli": { "description": "CLI framework for PHP", "link": "https://docs.minicli.dev" }, "erikaheidi/autodocs": { "description": "Tiny framework for automating documentation", "link": "https://github.com/erikaheidi/autodocs/wiki" } } }

In case you didn't click on the link to intelephense, you should know that is a language server for php. If you just want to test the code I show here, you don't need the php interpreter installed, just the source code of a php project. You can use this repository: minicli, is a decent size codebase and doesn't depend on any other php libraries.

I've used Laravel Zero for several cli tools and I love it. The only thing that bugs me a bit is the size of the executable you end up with. For my next project I've decided to try out minicli, which is similar, but much smaller since it doesn't have any dependencies at all.

Let's create a simple demo app using Minicli, to demonstrate dependency management with Composer. The app will output a random combination of adjective + noun.

If you come across bugs or other problems while using or upgrading to Minicli 3, we'll appreciate if you can create an issue on GitHub so that me and other contributors can help address it. Thank you in advance!

We won't use specialised frameworks like Minicli or Laravel Zero because the goal is not so much to focus on features but to better understand the development, testing, and distribution phases of command-line programs.

This will create a new composer.json file and download the base minicli/minicli package. Next, you need to create the entry point script that runs your command. Using your code editor of choice, create a new file in the root of the application called minicli (or another name of your choice):

The action runs a single-command application created with Minicli, a minimalist command-line framework for building PHP CLI commands.

For this demo, we'll create a command-line application using Minicli, a minimalist framework for command line applications in PHP. We'll use the TwitterOAuth library to communicate with the Twitter API.