GitHub Command Line Tool

A human-friendly1 command line tool for the GitHub API.

1 script-friendly too :)

Installation

Global installation (recommmended)

npm install --global @financial-times/github

When you run the tool, it will automatically notify you if there is a newer version of it available for you to update to.

You can disable notifications if you'd prefer not to be notified about updates.

No installation

npx @financial-times/github

The npx command lets you use this tool without installing it. However, each time you use npx it downloads the whole package from the npm registry, which takes a while. That's why global installation is reccommended.

Note: If this tool is globally installed, npx @financial-times/github will use that globally installed version rather than downloading.

Commands

github

# Display help.

github <command>

# Display help for the command.

github --version

# Show the version number.

Working with GitHub Projects

github add-pull-request [--column-url] [--pull-request-url]

# Add a pull request to a GitHub project column.

github close-project <github-url>

# Set the state of an existing project board to `closed`.

github create-project <github-url> [--body]

# Create a new project.

@see: src/commands/projects/README.md for more details.

Working with GitHub Pull Requests

github close-pull-request <github-url>

# Set the state of an existing pull request to `closed`.

github create-comment <github-url> [--body]

# Create a comment on an existing pull request.

github create-review-request <github-url> [reviewers|team-reviewers]

# Request a review for a pull request.

github create-pull-request <github-url> [--base] [--body] [--title]

# Create a new pull request.

github delete-comment <github-url>

# Delete a comment on an existing pull request.

github delete-review-request <github-url> [reviewers|team-reviewers]

# Delete a review for a pull request.

github merge-pull-request <github-url> [--method]

# Merge an existing pull request.

github open-pull-request <github-url>

# Set the state of an existing pull request to `open`.

@see: src/commands/pulls/README.md for more details.

Global Options

--json

# Format command output as JSON string.

--token

# GitHub personal access token.
# Generate one at https://github.com/settings/tokens

Note: You can omit the --token argument, because it will default to $GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN.

In that case you will need to export the token to your environment:

export $GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=[your token here]

Developers

Command hierarchy and directory structure

This project loosely follows the example provided in the Yargs documentation for command hierarchy and directory structure.

• @see: https://github.com/yargs/yargs/blob/master/docs/advanced.md#commanddirdirectory-opts
• @see: bin/github.js for the root github command.
• @see: src/commands for the github <command> commands.

Conventions

CamelCase, hyphen-case and under_scores

• All yargs commands and filenames are in hyphen-case.
• All function names and variables are in camelCase.
• The parameters used by Octokit are in under_score format.

Code formatting and linting

• The .eslintrc.js file contains the settings for code linting.

  • @see: https://eslint.org/

• Consider installing eslint in your editor. Plugins are available for most popular editors.

  • @see: https://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/integrations#editors

• Note: .eslintrc.js extends the prettier tool, which applies code formatting rules.

  • @see: https://prettier.io/docs/en/integrating-with-linters.html

• You can npm run eslint-check to check there are no conflicts between eslint and prettier configurations.

  • @see: https://github.com/prettier/eslint-config-prettier#cli-helper-tool

• The prettier tool uses the "@adambraimbridge/prettierrc-2019-05" configuration.

  • @see: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@adambraimbridge/prettierrc-2019-05

• Consider installing prettier in your editor. Plugins are available for most popular editors.

  • @see: https://prettier.io/docs/en/editors.html

Package.json scripts

npm run unit-test

# jest --coverage

npm run test

# npm run lint && npm run unit-test

npm run lint

# eslint src/ bin/ test/

npm run lint-fix

# eslint --fix eslint --fix src/ bin/ test/

npm run eslint-check

# eslint --print-config . | eslint-config-prettier-check