Building a CLI tool using node - An Ultimate Beginners guide 🚀

• clipboardy

  1 1,730 3.6 JavaScript

  Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)

Now we work on the auto copy feature of the cli. For this purpose, we use a package named clipboardy. To install run

• conf

  4 1,184 5.1 TypeScript

  Simple config handling for your app or module

Now, we implement history feature through which we can view the lastly created password through the -h or --history flag. For this purpose we use conf package. But first, let's create the flag feature. We use process.argvfor this purpose, process.argv is an inbuilt API used to get the arguments passed via command line like -h. We will slice it to remove the first two indexes of it to get relevant data only.

• SurveyJS

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  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.

  

• chalk

  57 21,396 6.4 JavaScript

  🖍 Terminal string styling done right

  

chalk to style the output string.

• node-cli-template

  3 6 0.0 JavaScript

  A nodejs template to quickly get you started with your cli tool.

Congratulations, you learned how to create a CLI tool using Node.js 🎉🎉. The sky is the limit, go create something awesome. I also created an open-source template so you don't need to start everything from scratch. github.com/MeerHamza1421/node-cli-template

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