conf VS env-paths

Compare conf vs env-paths and see what are their differences.

conf

Simple config handling for your app or module (by sindresorhus)
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Get paths for storing things like data, config, cache, etc (by sindresorhus)
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conf

Posts with mentions or reviews of conf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-25.
  • Social engineering campaign targeting tech employees spreads through NPM malware
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2023
    Wow. There is even one package to not use a JavaScript object: https://www.npmjs.com/package/conf
  • Rob Pike: “Dotfiles” being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2022
    info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • Building a CLI tool using node - An Ultimate Beginners guide 🚀
    4 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2021
    Now, we implement history feature through which we can view the lastly created password through the -h or --history flag. For this purpose we use conf package. But first, let's create the flag feature. We use process.argvfor this purpose, process.argv is an inbuilt API used to get the arguments passed via command line like -h. We will slice it to remove the first two indexes of it to get relevant data only.
  • How to Build a Command Line Interface (CLI) Application with Node.JS👨‍🎓🤓.
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2021
    conf:This package allows us to save persistent information on the user’s machine. We will be using it to save the user’s todo list

env-paths

Posts with mentions or reviews of env-paths. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-11.
  • Rob Pike: “Dotfiles” being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2022
    info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

What are some alternatives?

When comparing conf and env-paths you can also consider the following projects:

DraftLog - 📜 Create mutable log lines into the terminal, and give life to your logs!

data-store - Easily get, set and persist config data. Fast. Supports dot-notation in keys. No dependencies.

listr - Terminal task list

dotfiles - My dotfiles

Bit - A build system for development of composable software.

cosmiconfig - Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, TypeScript module, and more!

Commander.js - node.js command-line interfaces made easy

.files - dotfiles for all my configs.

cli-truncate - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal

conf-cli - simple cli for configuration and key/value's + oclif plugin for configuration

oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

conf vs DraftLog env-paths vs data-store conf vs listr env-paths vs dotfiles conf vs Bit env-paths vs cosmiconfig conf vs Commander.js env-paths vs .files conf vs cli-truncate env-paths vs conf-cli conf vs oclif env-paths vs kitty