clicloud

Utility for building composable CLIs for cloud deployments, using minimist, cliopts, and subcommand. Meant to be used alongside the "cloud" family of modules for cluster deployments, for examples see tinycloud and icecloud.

install

Add to your project with npm

npm install clicloud --save

usage

To setup a command line tool for a cloud, first parse your arguments, then pass them to init alongside the cloud.

var clicloud = require('clicloud')

var cli = new clicloud()

var args = cli.parse(process.argv)
cli.init(args, cloud)

Here's a full example where we use clicloud to build a CLI for tinycloud

#! /usr/bin/env node

var clicloud = require('clicloud')
var tinycloud = require('tinycloud')

var opts = {
	name: 'tinycloud'
}

var cli = new clicloud(opts)

var args = cli.parse(process.argv)

var groups = [
  {tag: 'master', count: 1},
  {tag: 'worker', count: args.count}
]

var cloud = new tinycloud(args, groups)

cli.init(args, cloud)

See tinycloud and its CLI for more examples of the resulting functionality.

custom name

To give a custom name to your CLI, just provide one during construction

var opts = {
	name: 'mycli'
}

var cli = new clicloud(opts)

adding options

Options are formatted in the cliclopts style, and it's easy to extend clicloud with your own.

Just define an object with the desired options

var opts = {
  options: [
    {
      name: 'cooloption',
      abbr: 'o',
      help: 'This setting is awesome!'
    },
  ]
}

And then include opts as a second argument during construction

var cli = clicloud(opts)

You'll now be able to use this command in your CLI, e.g.

cloud launch --cooloption=yay

adding subcommands

Adding subcommands is similarly easy, just add commands when defining opts:

var opts = {
  commands: [
    {
      name: 'sweetcommand',
      command: go
    }
  ]
}

function go(input) {
  console.log('these are my arguments ' + input._[0])
  console.log('this is my cloud ' + input._[1])
}

And again include when constructing

var cli = clicloud(opts)

You'll now be able to use this subcommand in your CLI, e.g.

cloud sweetcommand

When writing functions for you commands, input._ will be an array with whatever you passed to cli.init(args, cloud), where typically args is the result of calling cli.parse and cloud is the result of calling new tinycloud or similar.