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Top 23 JavaScript Command-line utility Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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log-update
Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
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Visit the Commander.js reference.
4. Chalk
Inquirer.js is a handy tool for adding interactive prompts to your CLI.
When I need shell-like utilities from my JS scripts I've previously used shelljs [0]. It's neat that Bun is adding more built-in utilities though.
[0] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
I found blessed but it seems like it was last updated 8 years ago. So what are my options?
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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node-config
As you can see, cli.tsx also looks pretty similar to React's root file, but, it has something more to offer using meow library. meow is a popular library that helps you build nice CLI applications gives you access to create usage docs and handles args and flags.
boxen
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command-line utility projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | zx | 41,666 |
| 2 | Commander.js | 26,095 |
| 3 | chalk | 21,410 |
| 4 | Inquirer.js | 19,370 |
| 5 | shelljs | 14,139 |
| 6 | blessed | 11,135 |
| 7 | yargs | 10,928 |
| 8 | ora | 8,896 |
| 9 | node-config | 6,199 |
| 10 | vorpal | 5,622 |
| 11 | meow | 3,493 |
| 12 | listr | 3,248 |
| 13 | progress | 2,927 |
| 14 | cli-table | 2,264 |
| 15 | update-notifier | 1,748 |
| 16 | boxen | 1,473 |
| 17 | DraftLog | 1,236 |
| 18 | log-update | 1,074 |
| 19 | drawille | 1,000 |
| 20 | gradient-string | 987 |
| 21 | terminal-image | 948 |
| 22 | configstore | 860 |
| 23 | liftoff | 837 |
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