Top 23 JavaScript CLI Projects

• ava

  9 19,342 8.0 JavaScript

  Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

  

  Project mention: Some Use-Cases for JS Generator Functions | reddit.com/r/javascript | 2021-09-02

  But this commit broken the unit tests. I use Ava (the only test runner that allows for async tests, so I can write unit tests in my own language) and snapshots for testing the list structure in few unit tests, and somehow the snapshots differ before and after adding iterator to Lists. I still need to investigate why and try to create simple reproduction for this issue on GitHub avajs/ava#2811.

• pkg

  25 18,919 8.3 JavaScript

  Package your Node.js project into an executable

  

  Project mention: Pleasure of Writing Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-15

• Syncfusion

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• chalk

  18 17,204 5.0 JavaScript

  🖍 Terminal string styling done right

  

  Project mention: How to Build a Command Line Interface (CLI) Application with Node.JS👨‍🎓🤓. | dev.to | 2021-10-13

  chalk:This package lets us print colored messages to the console. It will help us make our CLI application look nice and pretty

• svgo

  9 16,788 9.3 JavaScript

  ⚙️ Node.js tool for optimizing SVG files

  

  Project mention: Create your own React icons library and publish to npm automatically | dev.to | 2021-09-16

  We will use svgo to optimize our SVG icon files since:

• webpack-dashboard

  0 13,834 6.4 JavaScript

  A CLI dashboard for webpack dev server

  

• fx

  5 11,168 1.0 JavaScript

  Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer 🔥

  Project mention: An Introduction to JQ | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-24

  https://github.com/antonmedv/fx which uses JavaScript as the query language.

  The author of the tool has also written a guide and a screencast

  - https://medium.com/@antonmedv/discover-how-to-use-fx-effecti...

  - https://youtu.be/ktfeRxKog98

• signale

  0 8,533 0.0 JavaScript

  Highly configurable logging utility

• Scout APM

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• taskbook

  0 8,221 0.0 JavaScript

  Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

• serve

  4 7,228 4.7 JavaScript

  Static file serving and directory listing

  

  Project mention: is there a way to turn a godot project into a website? | reddit.com/r/godot | 2021-09-10

  https://github.com/vercel/serve (nodejs implementation, therefore requires npm or yarn being installed which are package managers for node)

• prompts

  0 6,862 1.8 JavaScript

  ❯ Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive prompts

• fkill

  1 6,395 3.0 JavaScript

  Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

  Project mention: Node.js Packages and Resources | dev.to | 2021-09-06

  fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

• np

  3 6,277 4.6 JavaScript

  A better `npm publish`

  Project mention: Node.js Packages and Resources | dev.to | 2021-09-06

  np - Better npm publish.

• enquirer

  3 6,204 0.0 JavaScript

  Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, Generate, lint-staged, pm2, gluegun, hygen, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others!

  

  Project mention: NPM Audit: Broken by Design | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-07-07

• standard-version

  7 5,600 4.6 JavaScript

  :trophy: Automate versioning and CHANGELOG generation, with semver.org and conventionalcommits.org

  

  Project mention: Autodeploy javascript library to npmjs via Github Actions | dev.to | 2021-09-12

  But you can also automate even more, if, for example, you write according to Conventional Commits, you can also automate the creation of tags using the standard-version library.

• vorpal

  2 5,467 0.0 JavaScript

  Node's framework for interactive CLIs

  Project mention: Ask a question before a git commit when committing to a certain folder | reddit.com/r/learnjavascript | 2021-08-18

  Assuming the project uses node, and admittedly it's a lil overkill, but you could use vorpal.

• carbon-now-cli

  2 5,109 0.0 JavaScript

  🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

  Project mention: Node.js Packages and Resources | dev.to | 2021-09-06

  carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

• Release It! 🚀

  1 4,610 8.2 JavaScript

  🚀 Automate versioning and package publishing

  

  Project mention: DynamoDB GUI with Electron, React & Typescript | dev.to | 2021-04-11

  Release It - To create tags, bump the versions, manage release betas and detect merged changes.

• create-react-library

  3 4,487 0.4 JavaScript

  ⚡CLI for creating reusable react libraries.

  Project mention: Build your own styled-components | dev.to | 2021-08-04

  Using create-react-library to scaffold a React component library.

• npm-run-all

  4 4,401 0.0 JavaScript

  A CLI tool to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequential.

  Project mention: Prettier and ESLint Automation Cheat Sheet | dev.to | 2021-06-17

  We can run all these scripts in parallel by using npm-run-all

• SingleFile

  24 4,166 9.6 JavaScript

  Web Extension for Firefox/Chrome/MS Edge and CLI tool to save a faithful copy of an entire web page in a single HTML file

  Project mention: Should locally stored webpages adjust for the display size like they do on the "live web"? | reddit.com/r/firefox | 2021-10-17

  I've saved some webpages with Singlefile -- a recommended addon, can be automated, in active development... supposedly high compatibility with websites. The pages I've saved in the past (such as a Wordpress blog recently) have displayed the (mobile and desktop) layouts accordingly, but eurogamer.net shows the full-blown desktop site on Android, and vice versa (the mobile site on desktop).

• react-blessed

  1 4,164 4.3 JavaScript

  A react renderer for blessed.

  Project mention: Impressive React-Based Open Source Frameworks and Tools | reddit.com/r/reactjs | 2021-08-04

  react-blessed

• flow-typed

  2 3,772 8.7 JavaScript

  A central repository for Flow library definitions

  

  Project mention: Is Flow moving away from (or toward) broader community relevance? | reddit.com/r/JSdev | 2021-05-26

  As for configurability of whether casts should error, in my experience with flow it's paradoxically riskier to rely on a type nag when refactoring an unknown "offending" type casts. I've ran into cases where upgrading flow raised a cast issue, it got "fixed" it in a way that made the type system happy, but inadvertently broke tests because falsy values are tricky like that. Here's an example where a type nag showed up for someone refactoring, they did what they thought was reasonable to silence it, and proceeded to accidentally break the entire tool (slipping through tests and code review, to boot). This happened in the flow-typed tool of all places.

• percollate

  3 3,463 6.3 JavaScript

  A command-line tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs.

  Project mention: Reading from the web offline and distraction-free | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-10

  I do a lot of this work[3] (web to documents) and it's interesting to see other approaches. The medium image problem is something I've faced as well, but never got around to fixing. I'm planning to get a Remarkable soon, so will definitely be trying this out.

  My personal solution has been https://github.com/captn3m0/url-to-epub/ (Node/readability), which I've tested against the entirety of Tor's original fiction collection[0] where it performs well enough (I'm biased). Another tool that does this beautifully well is percollate[1], but it doesn't give enough control of the metadata to the user - something I really care about.

  I've also started to use rdrview[2], which is a C-port of the current Firefox implementation of "reader view". It is very unix-y, so it is easy to pipe content to it (I usually run it through tidy first). Quite helpful in building web-archiving or web-to-pdf or web-to-kindle pipelines easily.

  [0]: https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/original-fiction/

  [1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

  [2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

  [3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/

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