meow
π CLI app helper (by sindresorhus)
Inquirer.js
A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. (by SBoudrias)
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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.
meow
Posts with mentions or reviews of meow.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-03.
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Building Reactive CLIs with Ink - React CLI library
As you can see, cli.tsx also looks pretty similar to React's root file, but, it has something more to offer using meow library. meow is a popular library that helps you build nice CLI applications gives you access to create usage docs and handles args and flags.
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
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How To Build a CLI With Node.js and React
You will notice that it is using meow to read the command and flags. Afterward, it passes the flags to the ui component and renders it. meow is a helper library to parse arguments. The text passed to meow() is the help text shown when you call create-micro-service --help.
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Getting started with React Ink
Here the App component is being imported using a special importJSX command. Meow is a library that allows us to make interactive CLIs. Here look at the render statement. A React element is being created where the App Element is passed as the first argument (ie the JSX part of the element) and then cli.flags is an arrow of props that will be passed into the element. This is where the name prop is coming from!!!
Inquirer.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Inquirer.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
Inquirer.js is a handy tool for adding interactive prompts to your CLI.
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Painless CLI integration testing
There is a CLI application based on Inquirer. Potentially, it could be another CLI library, say something from the following list. Our goal is to provide integration tests. But before that, let's look at the related terminology.
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Interactive Node JS command line
inquirer
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Custom File Generator Tutorial
If you boil plop down to its core, it is basically glue code between inquirer prompts and handlebar templates.
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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
- Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
- Say Allo' to the new Inquirer
- Say Allo' to the New Inquirer (Node.js CLI)
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Letβs create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
We can easily achieve that with the inquirer package. This package allows you to ask different types of questions, such as input questions (open-text questions), confirmation questions (Yes/No), etc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing meow and Inquirer.js you can also consider the following projects:
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
minimist - parse argument options
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs
chalk - π Terminal string styling done right
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.