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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.
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!!!
boxen
Posts with mentions or reviews of boxen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
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Interactive Node JS command line
boxen
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Build a business card CLI tool
There are many tools available to help with styling your command line output. For my business card, I used a combination of boxen to draw the box around the content, and chalk to power the font styles and colours. I'll leave this part up to you, but you can view the code on GitHub to see how I did it. Be aware that if you want to use ES6 imports in Node, you'll need to update your index.js file extension to .mjs, and edit the package.json "bin" section accordingly.
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Build a CLI withΒ Node.js
Your CLI is complete now! One thing more that you can do is to decorate the output and errors with boxes and colors, we can do that using boxen and chalk.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing meow and boxen you can also consider the following projects:
yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.
chalk - π Terminal string styling done right
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
minimist - parse argument options
ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs
cli-columns - Columnated lists for the CLI. Unicode and ANSI safe.
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
cross-env
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
sparkly - Generate sparklines ββββ ββ