shopify-app-cli vs cac

shopify-app-cli

Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster. (by Shopify)

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Simple yet powerful framework for building command-line apps. (by cacjs)

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shopify-app-cli		cac
	Project
6	Mentions	1
986	Stars	2,547
-	Growth	1.4%
8.4	Activity	0.0
11 months ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Ruby	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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shopify-app-cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of shopify-app-cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.

From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023

You are missing a few things about the Ruby based CLI:
1. dependencies for Gems are specified in the gemspec file and not the Gemfile. See https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/blob/main/shopify-cli... for example. There's a few non-development dependencies.
2. since it's difficult to package up a Ruby gem for distribution, maybe dependencies were vendored directly in the codebase: https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/tree/main/vendor
This isn't meant to be a comparison of the number of dependencies or anything. Just pointing out a few nuances to how the Ruby dependencies were handled.
Set Up a Modern Shopify Online Store 2.0 Workflow with Shopify CLI
3 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2022

See this GitHub issue for other recommendations
Shopify CLI 2.9.0 released
1 project | /r/ShopifyAppDev | 19 Jan 2022

#1922: Respect RUBY_BINDIR from Homebrew for installing gem
Why are [id] brackets in my Dynamic Routing URL?
1 project | /r/nextjs | 18 Dec 2021

For sure. So I'm building a Shopify app and used the CLI to scaffold the project. I'm going to keep digging into it but wasn't sure if there was something easy I just wasn't seeing
Shopify App CLI
1 project | dev.to | 17 Nov 2020

Download the .rpm file from the releases page2. Install the downloaded file

cac

Posts with mentions or reviews of cac. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.

From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023

CAC also quite good: https://github.com/cacjs/cac. Used by Vite and many others.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shopify-app-cli and cac you can also consider the following projects:

dawn - Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.

cli - Heroku CLI

XO - ❤️ JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults

standardnotes-folder-export-cli - Standard Notes Folder Export CLI - Deno

starter-theme - The Shopify Themes Team opinionated starting point for new a Slate project

keygen-go - Keygen SDK for Go. Integrate license activation, automatic updates and offline licensing for Go binaries.

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

slate - Slate is a toolkit for developing Shopify themes. It's designed to assist your workflow and speed up the process of developing, testing, and deploying themes.

pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable

cli - Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify

termost - 📦 A framework to build your next CLI application: Get the most of your terminal 🚀