cmd-liner
Node.js library to help build awesome command line tools.
Installation
$ npm install cmd-liner
Features
- Hierarchical (nested) commands.
- Easily provide documentation for every one of the commands.
- Handle errors when you want to.
Quick Start
var cmdliner = require('cmd-liner');
Now you need to create your commands object.
var commands = {};commands.say = { action: function(cmd) { console.log('I say ' + cmd.args[0]); }, argsCount: 1, desc: "A good description for the command 'say' :D"};commands.command2 = { commands: { is: function(optimist) { console.log('I can use optimist to parse arguments'); } }, nohandler: function() { console.error('No handler for this command :(')); }}
Then you can initialize the command liner.
cmdliner.init(commands);
Take a look at https://github.com/substack/node-optimist. Every 'action' will be called with the instance of 'optimist' so you can parse arguments and create aliases. If your requirement needs no such thing, don't worry about it.
To-Do
- Allow non-dashed parameters. (like 'echo $arg0')
- More code examples and documentation