h2atecnologia / create-node-cli

📟 CLI to create new Node.js CLI applications in minutes not hours.

📟 CLI to create new Node.js CLI applications. Learn to build Node.js CLI apps.

create-node-cli

• 📦 Create a Node.js CLI in a minute
• 🤯 Automatic argument parsing, help text, and welcome message
• 🗃️ History to maintain the last input data like the Author name, email, and URL
• 👨‍🏫 Awais taught and created this CLI project in his NodeCLI.com automation course

Install

# Recommended.
npx create-node-cli

# OR an alternative global install.
npm install -g create-node-cli

Usage

1. Run the CLI using

npx create-node-cli

# OR for global install
create-node-cli
# OR alias for global install
ncli

Then answer the following questions to generate a Node.js CLI.

CLI name?
CLI command?
CLI description?
CLI version?
CLI license?
CLI author name?
CLI author email?
CLI author URL?

BASIC USAGE

create-node-cli <command> [option]

COMMANDS

help  Print help info

OPTIONS

-c, --clear    Clear the console Default: true
-d, --debug    Print debug info Default: false
-v, --version  Print CLI version Default: false

Changelog

❯ Read the changelog here →

KEY: 📦 NEW, 👌 IMPROVE, 🐛 FIX, 📖 DOC, 🚀 RELEASE, and 🤖 TEST

I use Emoji-log, you should try it and simplify your git commits.

License & Conduct

• MIT © Ahmad Awais
• Thanks Liran Tal for the npm pkg name
• Code of Conduct

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Sponsor

Me (Ahmad Awais) and my incredible wife (Maedah Batool) are two engineers who fell in love with open source and then with each other. You can read more about me here. If you or your company use any of my projects or like what I’m doing then consider backing me. I'm in this for the long run. An open-source developer advocate.

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