yargs
yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
cli-table
Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS (by Automattic)
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| yargs | cli-table | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | 2 | |
| 10,917 | 2,264 | |
| 0.4% | 0.3% | |
| 5.0 | 0.0 | |
| 17 days ago | over 1 year 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.
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.
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.
cli-table
Posts with mentions or reviews of cli-table.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
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Let’s create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!
Another very useful and user-friendly command for CLI is the --help command. This command should help our users to use our CLI. This is the perfect place for tables. I installed the cli-table package.
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Command Line Job Search Application using Node.js
cli-table - it is used to display the data in a tabular format
What are some alternatives?
When comparing yargs and cli-table you can also consider the following projects:
minimist - parse argument options
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
ascii-charts - Ansi charts for nodejs
columnify - Create text-based columns suitable for console output. Supports cell wrapping.
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer
drawille - Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters