Writing JS-based Bash scripts with zx

• zx

  114 41,666 8.5 JavaScript

  A tool for writing better scripts

  

This is where the zx project comes in. zx introduced a way to write Bash-like scripts using JavaScript.

• cheat.sh

  140 37,443 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

#!/usr/bin/env zx $.verbose = false let response = await fetch('https://cheat.sh'); if(response.ok) { console.log(await response.text()); }

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• chalk

  57 21,410 6.4 JavaScript

  🖍 Terminal string styling done right

  

The zx project implements a shell script executor similar to Bash but using JavaScript modules. It provides an inbuilt asynchronous JavaScript API to call other commands similar to Bash. Besides that, it provides wrapper functions for several Node.js-based command-line helpers such as chalk, minimist, fs-extra, OS, and Readline.

• minimist

  5 5,307 3.6 JavaScript

  Discontinued parse argument options

The zx project implements a shell script executor similar to Bash but using JavaScript modules. It provides an inbuilt asynchronous JavaScript API to call other commands similar to Bash. Besides that, it provides wrapper functions for several Node.js-based command-line helpers such as chalk, minimist, fs-extra, OS, and Readline.

• fs-extra

  16 9,347 5.6 JavaScript

  Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()

The zx project implements a shell script executor similar to Bash but using JavaScript modules. It provides an inbuilt asynchronous JavaScript API to call other commands similar to Bash. Besides that, it provides wrapper functions for several Node.js-based command-line helpers such as chalk, minimist, fs-extra, OS, and Readline.

• node-fetch

  91 8,642 1.7 JavaScript

  A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

  

Programmers often use the curl command to make HTTP requests with Bash scripts. zx offers a wrapper for the node-fetch module, and it exposes the specific module’s API as fetch. The advantage is that zx doesn’t spawn multiple processes for each network request like Bash does with curl — because the node-fetch package uses Node’s standard HTTP APIs for sending network requests.

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