Top 6 TypeScript Command-line utility Projects

Ink

64 25,790 6.4 TypeScript

🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

Project mention: I created a simple CLI tool that helps you code FAST! | dev.to | 2024-03-12

I've always wanted to build a CLI tool, and when I realized that you can build one using React with Ink, I converted my Python script into a CLI tool.

Bit

69 17,569 9.9 TypeScript

A build system for development of composable software.

Project mention: Theming using CSS Variables? Turn Them into VS Code Snippets for Faster, Error-Free Coding | dev.to | 2024-04-14

Our demo solution was built using Bit, which allows us to create shareable components, render component “previews,” generate component docs, and so on.

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
oclif

34 8,844 9.5 TypeScript

CLI for generating, building, and releasing oclif CLIs. Built by Salesforce.

Project mention: Using CLI Applications to Increase Efficiency in Work | dev.to | 2024-03-13

oclif is a library that helps create CLI applications using Node.js. If you are using a different programming language, search for a suitable library.

conf

4 1,186 5.1 TypeScript

Simple config handling for your app or module

Project mention: Social engineering campaign targeting tech employees spreads through NPM malware | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-25

Wow. There is even one package to not use a JavaScript object: https://www.npmjs.com/package/conf

listr2

1 459 9.3 TypeScript

NodeJS Task List derived from the best! Create beautiful CLI interfaces via easy and logical to implement task lists that feel alive and interactive.
Cliffy

1 347 0.0 TypeScript

NodeJS Framework for Interactive CLIs

Project mention: Is Node.js a good way to implement a CLI app with persistence? | /r/node | 2023-06-02

Due to Node's asynchronous behavior, it makes Node great for long-running processes that make a lot of HTTP requests, database calls, and other async ops, like a web server or a REST API. However, if I am making a CLI tool for pretty much personal use only, with very minimal async operations, then blocking the event loop with a synchronous function that will resolve almost immediately will make no difference perceivable to a human brain or have any speed benefits that someone can actually observe (think `fs.readFileSync` or `require('dotenv') of 10 line config file, or a quick embedded db (sqlite) query with only ~100 records. I'm wondering what the best way to implement the database part of the app synchronous. I can read/write to JSON files but it would be tricky because the data is relational, and some complex joins and other data wrangling operations are required (complex to perform in JS but are easy to implement in a SQL statement). It's not important what the operations are, that's not the point of this post. This is mostly a personal project of interest: making this CLI tool completely avoiding any async operations/using no promises. I would like to use node tho, as I said this is just out of interest and I also want to experiment with several CLI libraries such as Ink or Cliffy.

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).