browser-support-spec

NodeJS-based command line application which generates a list of browsers which supports the input web technologies, by searching the CanIUse API.

Setup

Install browser-support-spec globally in NPM:

npm i browser-support-spec -g

Upon whence you may print want to out the package version in the console:

browser-support-spec version

If you want to uninstall this utility, run this

npm uninstall -g browser-support-spec

Functionality

This package delivers a command line program with two primary features:

Standard utility commands

browser-support-spec {scope | search keyword | list feature... | print feature... | version | help}

| Command| #Args | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | version | 0 | Outputs the current version of the project | | help | 0 | Ostensibly describes the different the commands the program will respond to | | scope | 0 | Print out the name of all of the web browsers browser-support-spec checks support against |

Find web features represented in the CanIUse API

| Command| #Args | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | search | 1 | Using the find function in the caniuse NPM package, the CLI program will print out the names of any web technology whose name matches the input string parameter |

Build a browser support spec using the CanIUse API

| Command| #Args | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | list | 1..n | Using the getSupport function in the caniuse package, the CLI program will print out the names (not their abbreviations) of the web browsers which supports all of the features listed as arguments for this command. Names are case sensitive. | | print | 1..n | Functions just like list, but instead of logging out the specification to the console, it prints the output list to a new file named .browserlistrc, which will be stored in the current directory the user runs the command from. |