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

1. clipboardy

   1 3 1,832 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

2. SurveyJS

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3. conf

   2 4 1,290 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.

4. chalk

   3 72 22,517 5.2 JavaScript

   🖍 Terminal string styling done right

   

   chalk to style the output string.

5. node-cli-template

   4 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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