boxen
Create boxes in the terminal (by sindresorhus)
Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
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1,475 | 19,393 | |
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3.1 | 9.3 | |
10 days ago | 6 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT 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.
boxen
Posts with mentions or reviews of boxen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
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Interactive Node JS command line
boxen
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Build a business card CLI tool
There are many tools available to help with styling your command line output. For my business card, I used a combination of boxen to draw the box around the content, and chalk to power the font styles and colours. I'll leave this part up to you, but you can view the code on GitHub to see how I did it. Be aware that if you want to use ES6 imports in Node, you'll need to update your index.js file extension to .mjs, and edit the package.json "bin" section accordingly.
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Build a CLI with Node.js
Your CLI is complete now! One thing more that you can do is to decorate the output and errors with boxes and colors, we can do that using boxen and chalk.
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
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
- Say Allo' to the new Inquirer
- Say Allo' to the New Inquirer (Node.js CLI)
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing boxen and Inquirer.js you can also consider the following projects:
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.
cross-env
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper