Commander.js
node.js command-line interfaces made easy (by tj)
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🖍 Terminal string styling done right (by chalk)
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26,095 | 21,410 | |
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8.7 | 6.4 | |
21 days ago | 3 months 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.
Commander.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Commander.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.
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Developing a Node CLI App in an NX monorepo
Visit the Commander.js reference.
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Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.3
In the previous article, I looked at a Commander to configure and accept cli options and assign it to a variable called program.
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[AskJS] Looking for JS course for experienced developers?
You can write a command line utility using zx or commander.js. Hit a public api, spit stuff out in the console, etc.
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[AskJS] What is your preferred solution to share and execute Node.js scripts ?
In your index.js you can do whatever you want, even create an interactive CLI (check commander).
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Exploring video generators in FFMPEG
There is clearly a whole load of repetition, so this should be fairly easy to build and parameterise. Essentially this will all just be string building so we won't need to use any particular libraries for most of this script. We will need a way to call ffmpeg though - and ffmpeg will need to be present too, of course. To call a CLI command we can use the package commander.
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How to Create a Testable CLI using TypeScript?
Commander.js is an NPM package that makes it easier to build CLI tools. You can find its documentation over here
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Creating a Node.js Command-line Tool, Linux Terminal CLI and NPM Package
You can also use npm package commander to make more complex command line tool with lot of options and sub commands.
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Create a Node.js command-line library with NRWL NX workspace
commander - npm - Required. A library that lets you define the commands and their arguments, options, help, etc.
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Releasing package to npm
Throughout my time writing and updating my static-site generator, I've been using npm from the very foundation I use an npm package called commander. Therefore, it is obvious that for the tool that I will be using to publish my ssg, I will do so with npm.
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Building a TypeScript CLI with Node.js and Commander
The command line has thousands of tools, such as awk, sed, grep, and find available at your disposal that cut development time and automate tedious tasks. Creating a command line tool in Node.js isn't very complicated, thanks to a powerful library like Commander.js.
chalk
Posts with mentions or reviews of chalk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-19.
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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()
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Commander.js and chalk you can also consider the following projects:
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
Ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
zx - A tool for writing better scripts
Figlet - JavaScript parser for FIGlet fonts
Bit - A build system for development of composable software.
ora - Elegant terminal spinner
listr - Terminal task list
node-config - Node.js Application Configuration
gluegun - A delightful toolkit for building TypeScript-powered command-line apps.
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS