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

1. shopify-app-cli

   1 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.

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3. oclif

   2 37 9,244 9.6 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/

4. cli

   3 5 865 9.3 TypeScript

   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

5. cac

   4 1 2,796 3.5 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.

6. pkg

   5 96 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.

7. cli

   6 6 534 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

8. slate

   7 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...

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10. XO

    8 10 7,813 8.1 TypeScript

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

    

11. keygen-go

    9 5 127 6.2 Go

    Keygen reference 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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