yargs
yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
Commander.js
node.js command-line interfaces made easy (by tj)
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38 | 44 | |
10,928 | 26,095 | |
0.5% | - | |
5.0 | 8.7 | |
22 days ago | 21 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.
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.
Commander.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of Commander.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.
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Developing a Node CLI App in an NX monorepo
Visit the Commander.js reference.
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Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained — Part 1.3
In the previous article, I looked at a Commander to configure and accept cli options and assign it to a variable called program.
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[AskJS] Looking for JS course for experienced developers?
You can write a command line utility using zx or commander.js. Hit a public api, spit stuff out in the console, etc.
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[AskJS] What is your preferred solution to share and execute Node.js scripts ?
In your index.js you can do whatever you want, even create an interactive CLI (check commander).
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Exploring video generators in FFMPEG
There is clearly a whole load of repetition, so this should be fairly easy to build and parameterise. Essentially this will all just be string building so we won't need to use any particular libraries for most of this script. We will need a way to call ffmpeg though - and ffmpeg will need to be present too, of course. To call a CLI command we can use the package commander.
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How to Create a Testable CLI using TypeScript?
Commander.js is an NPM package that makes it easier to build CLI tools. You can find its documentation over here
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Creating a Node.js Command-line Tool, Linux Terminal CLI and NPM Package
You can also use npm package commander to make more complex command line tool with lot of options and sub commands.
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Create a Node.js command-line library with NRWL NX workspace
commander - npm - Required. A library that lets you define the commands and their arguments, options, help, etc.
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Releasing package to npm
Throughout my time writing and updating my static-site generator, I've been using npm from the very foundation I use an npm package called commander. Therefore, it is obvious that for the tool that I will be using to publish my ssg, I will do so with npm.
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Building a TypeScript CLI with Node.js and Commander
The command line has thousands of tools, such as awk, sed, grep, and find available at your disposal that cut development time and automate tedious tasks. Creating a command line tool in Node.js isn't very complicated, thanks to a powerful library like Commander.js.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing yargs and Commander.js you can also consider the following projects:
minimist - parse argument options
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
Ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
zx - A tool for writing better scripts
Bit - A build system for development of composable software.
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
listr - Terminal task list
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right