slap
Sublime-like terminal-based text editor (by slap-editor)
yargs
yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
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slap | yargs | |
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5 | 38 | |
6,115 | 10,928 | |
-0.1% | 0.5% | |
0.0 | 5.0 | |
over 2 years ago | 24 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.
slap
Posts with mentions or reviews of slap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-18.
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Command line applications
Yes, you can create whatever you want - from simple CLI utils , through moderately complex interactive tools (example by me), to complex, full-fledged command line applications (example, another example).
- Anyone down to revive this? Feels like in 2022, there's still a need for this. Seems like it's been dead for a few years. Cannot be installed anymore.
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Admit it, you only edit .CONF files with it anyway...
In that spirit: I just found Slap (https://github.com/slap-editor/slap). Looks cool, but haven't installed it yet. Clearly best editor ever!!! Obviously better than vim.
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Micro - Text Editor
There is also the slap editor which tries to mimic Sublime in the terminal, but it's very bloated and seems to have been abandoned.
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 slap and yargs you can also consider the following projects:
torrent - download torrents with node from the CLI
minimist - parse argument options
wifi-password - Get current wifi password
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
np - A better `npm publish`
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
Standard - 🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer