gimme-input

Installation

npm i -g @seguri/gimme-input

Usage

In your script:

#!/usr/bin/env node
const { gimmeInput } = require('@seguri/gimme-input');

gimmeInput() will now return an array containing either the command line arguments or the lines piped into this script.

Why

I was not satisfied by the existing libraries (commander, minimist, etc.), so why not add more noise.

I took this chance to refresh my knowledge of the javascript ecosystem and write something vaguely useful.

Given this script to-kebab-case:

#!/usr/bin/env node
const { gimmeInput } = require('gimme-input');
const { kebabCase } = require('lodash');
gimmeInput().map(kebabCase).forEach(s => console.log(s));

When it's time to create a new feature branch for your favourite microservice, you can go and copy the relative JIRA ticket title like "BOARD-123: Moar foo" and create a branch out of it:

$ cd /your/git/project
$ git checkout -b $(pbpaste | to-kebab-case)
Switched to a new branch 'board-123-moar-foo'

TODO

An example list of features that may never get implemented:

• [ ] support \0 line separator
• [ ] read directly from clipboard to avoid pbpaste | script-using-gimme-input