nsm

The copy-paste version of the npm CLI

nsm (npm snippet manager) is a thingy that lets you copy any JavaScript file from any package (that specifies a GitHub repository) published to npm, directly from the command line.

Why though?

Here are a couple of loose ideas on its use cases:

• You know of an implementation in a library's examples that you always want to steal
• You want a centralized documentation on where code has been copy-pasted from
• You wish to be dependency free (well, officially, since copying code in this manner is kind of a dependency)
• You don't really feel like installing a dependency that is a one-liner
• You want to save random useful and reusable files in a library somewhere and easily copy them over without using Yeoman et al

Installation

npm install -g nsm-cli

Usage

$ nsm help
 
  Usage:
    nsm copy [package] [source] [destination] [--save]
    nsm summon
    nsm help

Commands

copy

Copies a file from a package's repo and writes it to a given destination. Omitted arguments are queried using prompts.

If the --save option is specified (at the end), a reference will be stored in a snippets collection in package.json.

nsm copy [package] [source] [destination] [--save]

summon

Downloads all files listed in the snippets collection in package.json and writes them to their defined destinations.

nsm summon