Commander.js VS yo

Visit the Commander.js reference.

In the previous article, I looked at a Commander to configure and accept cli options and assign it to a variable called program.

You can write a command line utility using zx or commander.js. Hit a public api, spit stuff out in the console, etc.

In your index.js you can do whatever you want, even create an interactive CLI (check commander).

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.

Commander.js is an NPM package that makes it easier to build CLI tools. You can find its documentation over here

You can also use npm package commander to make more complex command line tool with lot of options and sub commands.

commander - npm - Required. A library that lets you define the commands and their arguments, options, help, etc.

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.

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.

Maybe recheck the name ? https://www.npmjs.com/package/yo https://yeoman.io/

FYI, the name of the tool conflicts with the well-known project-scaffolding generation tool yeoman (which also uses yo as the program name)

Yeoman

I am familiar with Yeoman but the project appears dead. There are no replies to recent comments and the last release was a year ago. I would prefer to not use a dead/dying project as the basis for a new work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The next best option would be yeoman - https://yeoman.io/

you're probably thinking of yeoman https://github.com/yeoman/yo

We'll need to install the Yeoman scaffolding CLI tools as well as the generator.

Have you tried yo? Haven't tried it much so can't say for sure but it's a pretty common recommendation for project generators.

I used Yeoman to generate the scaffolding. Make a project folder and run: