Introduction

Javascript Inline Query (jiq) a command line tool.

Use existing javascript knowledge to query or modify almost any type data, files and directory.

Installation

npm -g install jiq

or

yarn global add jiq

Usage

jiq <file/path/url> <your javascript where $ holds data>

Let's start

jiq

output

┌──────────────┬───────────┬──────┐
│ base         │ type      │ size │
├──────────────┼───────────┼──────┤
│ .git         │ directory │ --   │
│ .vscode      │ directory │ --   │
│ assets       │ directory │ --   │
│ build        │ directory │ --   │
│ docs         │ directory │ --   │
│ node_modules │ directory │ --   │
│ src          │ directory │ --   │
│ stubs        │ directory │ --   │
└──────────────┴───────────┴──────┘

filter directory only

jiq . '.filter(x => x.isDirectory)'

output

┌──────────────┬───────────┬──────┐
│ base         │ type      │ size │
├──────────────┼───────────┼──────┤
│ .git         │ directory │ --   │
│ .vscode      │ directory │ --   │
│ assets       │ directory │ --   │
│ build        │ directory │ --   │
│ docs         │ directory │ --   │
│ node_modules │ directory │ --   │
│ src          │ directory │ --   │
│ stubs        │ directory │ --   │
└──────────────┴───────────┴──────┘

rename js to ts file

jiq . '.filter(x => x.ext === "js").each(x => x.rename(x.name + ".ts"))'

output

rename all js files to ts on specified directory

goto File section

let say we have a package.json file

jiq package.json .scripts

{
    "start": "node index.js"
}

see JSON

get json from url and print as table.

jiq https://reqres.in/api/users '.data' --print table

output

┌─────────┬────┬────────────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ (index) │ id │           email            │ first_name │ last_name │                                avatar                                 │
├─────────┼────┼────────────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│    0    │ 1  │  '[email protected]'  │  'George'  │  'Bluth'  │  'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/calebogden/128.jpg'  │
│    1    │ 2  │  '[email protected]'  │  'Janet'   │ 'Weaver'  │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/josephstein/128.jpg'  │
│    2    │ 3  │   '[email protected]'    │   'Emma'   │  'Wong'   │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/olegpogodaev/128.jpg' │
│    3    │ 4  │    '[email protected]'    │   'Eve'    │  'Holt'   │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/marcoramires/128.jpg' │
│    4    │ 5  │ '[email protected]' │ 'Charles'  │ 'Morris'  │ 'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/stephenmoon/128.jpg'  │
│    5    │ 6  │  '[email protected]'  │  'Tracey'  │  'Ramos'  │  'https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/bigmancho/128.jpg'   │
└─────────┴────┴────────────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

see printer

with json output

jiq https://reqres.in/api/users '.data.head(3).pick({email: "email", name: (x) => x.first_name + " " + x.last_name })'

see all available array functions array, and JSON

output

[
    { email: '[email protected]', name: 'George Bluth' },
    { email: '[email protected]', name: 'Janet Weaver' },
    { email: '[email protected]', name: 'Emma Wong' }
]

Read full documentation here.