cfonts
Sexy fonts for the console (by dominikwilkowski)
Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
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| 6.8 | 9.2 | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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.
cfonts
Posts with mentions or reviews of cfonts.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-05.
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A Guide to CLIs with Node.js
Changing fonts are quite difficult through javascript and I spent a lot of time searching for a package that does just that. Thankfully, I got it. We'll be using the cfonts package. Go ahead and install it by running the following -
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 cfonts and Inquirer.js you can also consider the following projects:
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
cross-env
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
gulp-execa - Gulp.js command execution for humans
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper