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JavaScript Libraries That You Should Know
4. Chalk
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Extracting YouTube video data with OpenAI and LangChain
Chalk: Provides an easy way to stylize terminal strings with various colors and text formatting in Node.js, aiding in creating visually appealing command-line outputs
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
Chalk is a popular choice for adding colors to CLI output while maintaining readability.
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Despidiéndome de Console.log
Librerías: Chalk winston, log4js
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Comparison of Node.js libraries to colorize text in terminal
Today the most popular library and de facto standard is the chаlk. The chalk has rich functionality, is fast but not ideal. It lacks some useful features.
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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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ESM not gaining traction in back-end Node?
One of the libraries I used most that went full-ESM is Chalk. They released v5 over a year-and-a-half ago (November 2021) with ESM-only support and haven't updated v4 - their last iteration that supported CommonJS - since. If you go into their GitHub Issues section, you'll see a number of issues raised about CommonJS support, most of which are just responded to with a link to a post they made about switching over. Fair enough. I guess if I had to constantly answer the same question over and over, I might do the same.
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Let’s create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
To colorize my logs, I used a chalk package and created a logger utility:
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Create a CLI tool to help bootstraping Flutter project using Node.JS - Part 1
We will add some dependencies to help us deal with CLI behaviours (inquirer) and text coloring (chalk).
- Going beyond the old and boring console.log()
shelljs
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The Bun Shell
When I need shell-like utilities from my JS scripts I've previously used shelljs [0]. It's neat that Bun is adding more built-in utilities though.
[0] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
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Auto commit with LaunchAgents & JavaScript
Now we can open this new project and we're going to install one package, shelljs Shelljs is a great Command Line Utility for interacting with the command line in JavaScript.
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zx 7.0.0 release
Feels like this library is trying to solve a problem solved long ago by shelljs
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Guide: Hush Shell-Scripting Language
The purpose of OP's project kind of reminded me of shell.js (shx) [1] which is a nodejs library that wraps all kinds of common UNIX commands to their own synchronously executed methods.
I guess that most shell projects start off as wanting to be a cross-platform solution to other operating systems, but somewhere in between either escalate to being their own programming language (like all the powershell revamps) or trying to reinvent the backwards-compatibility approach and/or POSIX standards (e.g. oil shell).
What I miss among all these new shell projects is a common standardization effort like sh/dash/bash/etc did back in the days. Without creating something like POSIX that also works on Windows and MacOS, all these shell efforts remain being only toy projects of developers without the possibility that they could actually replace the native shells of Linux distributions.
Most projects in the node.js area I've seen migrate their build scripts at some point to node.js, because maintaining packages and runtimes on Windows is a major shitshow. node.js has the benefit (compared to other environments) that it's a single .exe that you have to copy somewhere and then you're set to go.
When I compare that with python, for example, it is super hard to integrate. All the anaconda- or python-based bundles for ML engineers are pretty messed up environments on Windows; and nobody actually knows where their site-packages/libraries are really coming from and how to even update them correctly with upstream.
[1] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
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Change working directory in my current shell context when running Node script
`` When I then run this file with./bin/nodefile`, it exits, but the working directory of the current shell context has not changed. I have also tried shelljs, but that does not work either.
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Ask HN: Let's Build CheckStyle for Bash?
Oh people have tried - here are a few https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-l...
I vaguely remember quite liking bish when I saw it years ago https://github.com/tdenniston/bish but it looks like no commits in 6 years.
This shelljs thing looks more promising, but really tedious to use https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs - shell.rm('-rf', 'out/Release'); I'd rather suffer proper bash than have to do that sort of thing.
Nothing seems to have really caught on so far. Bash is easy to learn and hack on, and before you know it, that simple install.sh that started out moving a few files around is 5000 lines, unmaintainable, and critical to bootstrapping your software :)
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Release of google/zx 5.0.0
I personally prefer shelljs for stuff like this. zx seems pretty high on the "insane syntactic sugar" train.
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How to build a CLI using NodeJS 💻
As we are creating starter files, let's use ShellJS to run commands like git clone, mkdir...
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shelljs VS bargs - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 Dec 2021
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Scripting Languages of the Future
This talks a bunch about the "good run" of current scripting languages, including for example JavaScript.
But JavaScript, as an actual scripting language, has been pretty primitive but finally starting to become a real candidate for actual scripting. There's imo crufty not very great options like shelljs[1]. But adding a tagged-template string for system(), for calling things, and a little bit of standard library has made JS a much more interesting & competent scripting language. Those efforts are being done in ZX[2].
I like the idea of the topic, exploring it. But the author feels off in a number of places.
> What TypeScript showed is that you could join together the idea of a flexible lightweight (and optional!) type system onto an existing programming language, and do so successfully. . . .The question then is - what if you created a programming language from the start to have this kind of support?
Personally I just don't think languages matter very much. They're very similar, by & large. They have different tooling, packaging, somewhat different looks/feels for executing code, and their standard libraries are different. But TypeScript is popular & fast at least 90% because it is JS, because it works with JS things. Arguing that we should try to recreate TypeScript apart from JS sounds like a mind blowing waste of time. Also, Deno has good integrated TypeScript support.
On the topic of easy parallelism, JavaScript promises are imo quite easy to stitch together & use & quite available.
One of the main issues I see with easy-parallelism is that it's too easy: there's too many cases for uncontrolled parallelism. Throwing tarn.js or other worker-pools at problems seems all too common. But one is still left stitching together each pool/stage of work. I'd like to see SEDA[3] like architectures emerge, and perhaps get added to something like ZX standard library.
[1] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
[2] https://github.com/google/zx
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_event-driven_architectu...
What are some alternatives?
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
zx - A tool for writing better scripts
Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
cross-env
Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
node-config - Node.js Application Configuration
sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS