Commander.js
node.js command-line interfaces made easy (by tj)
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🌈 React for interactive command-line apps (by vadimdemedes)
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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.
Ink
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-12.
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I created a simple CLI tool that helps you code FAST!
I've always wanted to build a CLI tool, and when I realized that you can build one using React with Ink, I converted my Python script into a CLI tool.
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Delete git branches in batches
⚠️ Git for Windows Terminal is currently not supported, and the tool is limited to ink. We will look for alternatives later. Please use CMD, Vscode terminal's Git... terminal
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Setup Simple Web UI for Node.js App in Seconds
There is a good solution for some of those cases - ink. With ink, I can implement text-based UI with knowledge of React, which is neat but there are still some caveats for my usages:
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Building Reactive CLIs with Ink - React CLI library
Looks cool, right? Building a similar UI in the terminal without any library would be quite hard, though, thanks to Ink it's almost as easy as building any frontend UI with React.
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Terminal-like output library for js?
ink?
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Synchronous File Reading and Writing in Node.js
I'm writing a CLI with ink. Writing async code is important as to not block the rendering and respond to user input. I have a few loading animations that update every 100ms. Synchronous operations can make the animation hang for >500ms, making the animation choppy.
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Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for Developers Using React
You get the comfort of using react components instead of fighting with HTML tables to make your emails look nice. I think it's awesome! It's analog to what ink[0] does with CLI outputs. Sure, you could write fancy CLI outputs in bash, but ink takes the pain out of it and makes it easy.
[0] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
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Is Node.js a good way to implement a CLI app with persistence?
Due to Node's asynchronous behavior, it makes Node great for long-running processes that make a lot of HTTP requests, database calls, and other async ops, like a web server or a REST API. However, if I am making a CLI tool for pretty much personal use only, with very minimal async operations, then blocking the event loop with a synchronous function that will resolve almost immediately will make no difference perceivable to a human brain or have any speed benefits that someone can actually observe (think `fs.readFileSync` or `require('dotenv') of 10 line config file, or a quick embedded db (sqlite) query with only ~100 records. I'm wondering what the best way to implement the database part of the app synchronous. I can read/write to JSON files but it would be tricky because the data is relational, and some complex joins and other data wrangling operations are required (complex to perform in JS but are easy to implement in a SQL statement). It's not important what the operations are, that's not the point of this post. This is mostly a personal project of interest: making this CLI tool completely avoiding any async operations/using no promises. I would like to use node tho, as I said this is just out of interest and I also want to experiment with several CLI libraries such as Ink or Cliffy.
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
- Make interactive command-line apps with React
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Commander.js and Ink you can also consider the following projects:
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
zx - A tool for writing better scripts
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.
Bit - A build system for development of composable software.
nestjs-commander - A module for using NestJS to build up CLI applications
listr - Terminal task list
tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
PyLaTeX - A Python library for creating LaTeX files
gluegun - A delightful toolkit for building TypeScript-powered command-line apps.
react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React