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

• create-files-from-template-cli

  1 8 5.4 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

  57 21,396 6.4 JavaScript

  🖍 Terminal string styling done right

  

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

• 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.

  

• jest

  473 43,553 9.6 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

jest and ts-jest – for testing,

• cli-table

  2 2,264 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

  322 37,249 9.5 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

esbuild – is an easy-to-configure bundler,

• Inquirer.js

  37 19,346 9.2 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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