n-cli

a usefull toolset for node commandline applications

Installation

$ npm install --save n-cli

Usage

#!/usr/bin/env node

"use strict";

var Cli = new require("n-cli");
var cli = new Cli({
  silent: false,
  handleUncaughtException : true, // beautifies error output to console
  handledRejectionPromiseError : true, // beautifyies error output to console
  runcom : ".myapprc"
});

cli.on("unicorn", function(){
    this.argv.notNull("rainbow");
    this.log(this);
});

cli.runcom(function(rc){ 
    this.log(rc);
});

$ your-client-app unicorn --rainbow forever;

# yields :
{
  prettyError:
   PrettyError { },
  init:
   { appname: 'node-cli-example-app-1',
     handleUncaughtException: true },
  argv: { _: [ 'unicorn' ], rainbow: 'e', notNull: [Function: bound ] },
  config:
   { settings: {},
     appFolder: 'c:\\git\\n-cli\\examples',
     appPackageFilename: 'c:\\git\\n-cli\\examples\\package.json',
     appPackage: {},
     appName: 'node-cli-example-app-1',
     dataFolder: 'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Roaming\\node-cli-example-app-1',
     filename: 'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Roaming\\node-cli-example-app-1\\config.json' },
  color:
   Chalk { },
  Error: [Function: NodeCliError],
  minimist: [Function]
}

$ your-client-app unicorn --rainbow ;

# yields : missing-parameter-value missing value for parameter rainbow.

Build in functions

ncli adds automatically some methods to your commandline application.

# output your version number
$ your-client-app -v;

Output COMMANDLINE-ARGUMENTS.md in your projects root folder

$ your-client-app help;

API

• API description

Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53SlSaP6cs

License

MIT © s-a