vorpal VS oclif

Compare vorpal vs oclif and see what are their differences.

vorpal

Node's framework for interactive CLIs (by dthree)

oclif

CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce. (by oclif)
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vorpal oclif
4 34
5,621 8,757
- 0.8%
0.0 9.4
6 months ago 8 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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vorpal

Posts with mentions or reviews of vorpal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
  • Use GNU Emacs
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2023
    I occasionally try that as well and it sometimes helps but not for things like node apps that use https://vorpal.js.org REPLs. They just aren't usable in shell-mode.
  • google/zx: write shell scripts in JavaScript
    5 projects | /r/shell | 7 Jan 2022
    Got it, so more about the general idea of using Node to interact with a shell. Fair points but I'm not sure that's where zx falls. I'm looking at it in relation to projects like commander, oclif, and vorpal— frameworks for authoring and packaging local-use CLI tools written in JS, typically aimed at people who know JS and work in a terminal but don't know shell scripting. Those have the overhead of learning a framework, and don't do anything to help you work with the shell. zx seems to come from the other direction: instead of an esoteric framework, shell concepts and shell commands in a Node script.
  • Use command from terminal?
    3 projects | /r/node | 27 Dec 2020
    Are you wanting to run your nodejs app, and then control it within the same terminal it is running in? If so, take a look at vorpal

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

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

cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS

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

progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs

Cliffy - NodeJS Framework for Interactive CLIs