quilk-cliargs

Node command line argument reader.

Example call to a file named server.js might look like:

node server.js devmode arg2=one arg2=two arg2=potatoes -arg3=2742 --someOtherArg 

In your application file you can now access these arguments very easily using the getAll() function:

es5

var quilkCliargs = require('quilkCliargs').getAll();
console.log( quilkCliargs );

es6

import quilkCliargs from 'quilkCliargs'

class SomeClass{

  constructor(){
      this.cliArgs = quilkCliargs.getAll()
  }

  someMethod(){
      console.log( this.cliArgs );
  }
}

The console log output of both would be:

{
    devmode: true,
    arg2 : ['one', 'two', 'potatoes'],
    arg3 : 2742,
    someOtherArg : true
}

An additional thing to note is that this module normalises all the pre-dashes. In the example above notice how -arg3 went in with a dash but the output was without. The same is true for a double dashes.

The benefit to this is, in your program you can simply access the object returned from the readAll() function in a std object fashion eg:

if( cliArgs.someOtherArg ){
    //do something magical
}

If the dashes were not normalised then this would be quite annoying code to write:

if( cliArgs['--someOtherArg'] ){
    //do something magical with this messy code :)
}