Let’s create a Node CLI for generating files from templates!

• create-files-from-template-cli

  1 3 10.0 TypeScript

  A simple but powerful CLI to generate a list of files.

  Note: This is not the whole app. I am explaining only some interesting parts of it. Check GitHub to see the code.

• chalk

  12 20,753 5.3 JavaScript

  🖍 Terminal string styling done right

  

  To colorize my logs, I used a chalk package and created a logger utility:

• Appwrite

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• jest

  126 42,770 9.3 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

  jest and ts-jest – for testing,

• cli-table

  1 2,245 0.0 JavaScript

  Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS

  

  Another very useful and user-friendly command for CLI is the --help command. This command should help our users to use our CLI. This is the perfect place for tables. I installed the cli-table package.

• esbuild

  73 36,113 9.6 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

  esbuild – is an easy-to-configure bundler,

• Inquirer.js

  17 18,589 6.6 JavaScript

  A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

  We can easily achieve that with the inquirer package. This package allows you to ask different types of questions, such as input questions (open-text questions), confirmation questions (Yes/No), etc.

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