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yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
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3,489 | 10,917 | |
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7.0 | 5.0 | |
about 1 month ago | 18 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
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.
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!!!
yargs
Posts with mentions or reviews of yargs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
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A Guide to Building CLI Tools in JavaScript
Your tool now automates project setup, but there's room for improvement. Consider adding more features or handling user input to customize the project structure. Explore packages like yargs for parsing command-line arguments. You can learn more about yargs through their official documentation here.
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Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
This code snippet uses yargs, a Node.js package, to parse command-line arguments in a POSIX-compliant way, including support for short and long-form options. You could also use the popular commander defined as a complete node.js command-line interface.
- Show HN: Pg-CLI – Read PG's essays in your terminal
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Process of working in parallel branches in GitHub
This feature was implemented by adding a new argument option -l or --lang in yargs as below.
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Searching through JSON logs locally
Creating CLIs with yargs is a piece of cake. For LZ4 there is a streaming implementation on npm which is a single function and also happened to decompress my files without any errors. Everything else is out-of-box Node.js.
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What is your ideal setup for new project for solo developers
Backend is more tricky. - RESTful APIs I prefer Koajs - For a RPC/microsevice, I have only used gRPC - For a CLI, yargs and inquirer
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yargs VS clerc - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Dec 2022
- Making command line commands with javascript
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DPS909 Blog - Lab 3: Managing Simultaneous Changes
To accomplish this task, I added a new option using the yargs module. This allows me to read whatever the user inputs after using -l/--l. Following this, I added a conditional statement that defaults to en-CA whenever a language code is not inputted.
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Command line applications
You can build them from scratch, or use one of many specialized libraries on NPM, like commander, yargs, blessed, terminal kit, prompts, and many more.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing meow and yargs you can also consider the following projects:
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
minimist - parse argument options
ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
cross-env