From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a Better Developer Experience

• shopify-app-cli

  6 986 8.4 Ruby

  Discontinued Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.

  

You are missing a few things about the Ruby based CLI:

1. dependencies for Gems are specified in the gemspec file and not the Gemfile. See https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/blob/main/shopify-cli... for example. There's a few non-development dependencies.

2. since it's difficult to package up a Ruby gem for distribution, maybe dependencies were vendored directly in the codebase: https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-cli/tree/main/vendor

This isn't meant to be a comparison of the number of dependencies or anything. Just pointing out a few nuances to how the Ruby dependencies were handled.

• oclif

  34 8,799 9.4 TypeScript

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

  

Interesting. TIL about the Open CLI framework that they all seem to be moving to: https://oclif.io/

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• cli

  4 852 9.1 JavaScript

  Heroku CLI (by heroku)

  

Not sure why downvoted.

https://blog.herokuapp.com/evolution-of-heroku-cli-2008-2017 Their version 3, started with Ruby, then go/node, then pure node.

https://github.com/heroku/cli "This is the next generation Node-based Heroku CLI. The goals of this project were to make plugins more flexible, remove Ruby as a runtime dependency, and make the CLI faster. [...] It has identical functionality to the old Ruby CLI." I can't find

• cac

  1 2,545 0.0 TypeScript

  Simple yet powerful framework for building command-line apps. (by cacjs)

  

CAC also quite good: https://github.com/cacjs/cac. Used by Vite and many others.

• pkg

  91 24,099 6.3 JavaScript

  Discontinued Package your Node.js project into an executable

  

You don't even need that: https://github.com/vercel/pkg.

I think there are equivalents in the Python ecosystem.

• cli

  5 345 10.0 TypeScript

  Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify (by Shopify)

  

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/package.json

but wait...this too:

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/app/packag...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/cli-hydrog...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/cli/packag...

https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/create-app...

etc, etc, etc

• slate

  1 1,284 10.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued Slate is a toolkit for developing Shopify themes. It's designed to assist your workflow and speed up the process of developing, testing, and deploying themes. (by Shopify)

  

They sure do like to start over, huh? What's funny is that Slate was canned while still in beta: https://github.com/Shopify/slate#-slate---end-of-support-jan...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• XO

  9 7,543 6.0 JavaScript

  ❤️ JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults

  

• keygen-go

  5 87 7.0 Go

  Keygen SDK for Go. Integrate license activation, automatic updates and offline licensing for Go binaries.

  

Check out https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-go. Has auto-upgrade support for Go apps.

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