yargs
yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist. (by yargs)
ora
Elegant terminal spinner (by sindresorhus)
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yargs | ora | |
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38 | 7 | |
10,928 | 8,896 | |
0.5% | - | |
5.0 | 5.4 | |
20 days ago | 4 months 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.
ora
Posts with mentions or reviews of ora.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.
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Interactive Node JS command line
ora
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Prerendering in Angular - Part III
The builder uses ora library for logging out on console
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spinoff - an easy library for displaying spinners in the terminal
I could put it in a fancy terminal window, kind of like ora does it - https://github.com/sindresorhus/ora
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Spinach, a practical terminal spinner library
I was working on a project when I realized there wasn't any spinner library offering an experience close to Ora (js) so I made my own!
- Ora — Elegant terminal spinner
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A Guide to CLIs with Node.js
Asynchronous and time consuming operations are very common in CLIs. We don't want to leave the user thinking his computer has hung up. We'll use the ora package for loaders. Begin by installing ora -
What are some alternatives?
When comparing yargs and ora you can also consider the following projects:
minimist - parse argument options
shelljs - :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js
Inquirer.js - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
chalk - 🖍 Terminal string styling done right
meow - 🐈 CLI app helper
multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable spinners for concurrent tasks in Node.js CLI programs
oclif - CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.
vorpal - Node's framework for interactive CLIs
progress - Flexible ascii progress bar for nodejs
get-stdin - Get stdin as a string or buffer