oclif VS Cliffy

Compare oclif vs Cliffy and see what are their differences.

oclif

CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce. (by oclif)
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oclif Cliffy
34 1
8,757 347
0.8% -
9.4 0.0
7 days ago almost 2 years ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License ISC License
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oclif

Posts with mentions or reviews of oclif. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-29.

Cliffy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cliffy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
  • Is Node.js a good way to implement a CLI app with persistence?
    3 projects | /r/node | 2 Jun 2023
    Due to Node's asynchronous behavior, it makes Node great for long-running processes that make a lot of HTTP requests, database calls, and other async ops, like a web server or a REST API. However, if I am making a CLI tool for pretty much personal use only, with very minimal async operations, then blocking the event loop with a synchronous function that will resolve almost immediately will make no difference perceivable to a human brain or have any speed benefits that someone can actually observe (think `fs.readFileSync` or `require('dotenv') of 10 line config file, or a quick embedded db (sqlite) query with only ~100 records. I'm wondering what the best way to implement the database part of the app synchronous. I can read/write to JSON files but it would be tricky because the data is relational, and some complex joins and other data wrangling operations are required (complex to perform in JS but are easy to implement in a SQL statement). It's not important what the operations are, that's not the point of this post. This is mostly a personal project of interest: making this CLI tool completely avoiding any async operations/using no promises. I would like to use node tho, as I said this is just out of interest and I also want to experiment with several CLI libraries such as Ink or Cliffy.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing oclif and Cliffy you can also consider the following projects:

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

Ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

yargs - yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

Bit - A build system for development of composable software.

listr - Terminal task list

tsdx - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript package development

terminal-image - Display images in the terminal