yargs vs boxen

yargs

yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)

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boxen

Create boxes in the terminal (by sindresorhus)

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yargs		boxen
	Project
38	Mentions	3
10,928	Stars	1,473
0.5%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	3.1
24 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

A Guide to Building CLI Tools in JavaScript
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2024

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.
Mastering Node.js CLI: Best Practices and Tips
5 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024

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
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
Process of working in parallel branches in GitHub
2 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2023

This feature was implemented by adding a new argument option -l or --lang in yargs as below.
Searching through JSON logs locally
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2023

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.
What is your ideal setup for new project for solo developers
6 projects | /r/node | 3 Feb 2023

Backend is more tricky. - RESTful APIs I prefer Koajs - For a RPC/microsevice, I have only used gRPC - For a CLI, yargs and inquirer
yargs VS clerc - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 26 Dec 2022
Making command line commands with javascript
2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 20 Dec 2022
DPS909 Blog - Lab 3: Managing Simultaneous Changes
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Sep 2022

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.
Command line applications
7 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 18 Sep 2022

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.

boxen

Posts with mentions or reviews of boxen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.

Interactive Node JS command line
3 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2023

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Build a business card CLI tool
5 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2022

There are many tools available to help with styling your command line output. For my business card, I used a combination of boxen to draw the box around the content, and chalk to power the font styles and colours. I'll leave this part up to you, but you can view the code on GitHub to see how I did it. Be aware that if you want to use ES6 imports in Node, you'll need to update your index.js file extension to .mjs, and edit the package.json "bin" section accordingly.
Build a CLI with Node.js
3 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2021

Your CLI is complete now! One thing more that you can do is to decorate the output and errors with boxes and colors, we can do that using boxen and chalk.