@nectary/cli

Nectary CLI

Add Nectary compositions (higher-order React components built on @nectary/components) directly into your project. This follows the same “copy source into your repo” approach as Shadcn UI, so you own the code and can edit it. It is aimed at React 16–18 apps where using these compositions as web components would require awkward serialization of objects/arrays.

Prerequisites

• Node ^18.19.0 or >=20.5.0 (see engines in package.json)
• A project with @nectary/components installed

Usage

List compositions

npx @nectary/cli list

Prints each available composition name and its one-line description.

View a composition

Preview a composition before adding it (description, dependencies, and files that would be written):

npx @nectary/cli view <name>

Example:

npx @nectary/cli view table

Add a composition

From your project root:

npx @nectary/cli add <name>

Examples:

npx @nectary/cli add button
npx @nectary/cli add select
npx @nectary/cli add phone-input
npx @nectary/cli add table

Files are written under src/components/nectary/ by default (see Configuration). The CLI will also install any npm dependencies required by the composition (e.g. countries-phone-masks for phone-input).

Options

• --path <path> – Override the output directory (default: src/components/nectary).
• --overwrite – Replace existing files. Without this, existing files are skipped.

Configuration

Optional: create a nectary.json file at your project root to set the default components path:

{
  "componentsPath": "src/components/nectary"
}

If nectary.json is missing, the CLI uses src/components/nectary.

Available compositions

Compositions live in this package under registry/ and can be customized (e.g. add props) without touching the docs.

Name	Description	Dependencies
button	Simple Button (sinch-button). Props: text, aria-label, type, size, disabled, toggled, formType, onClick.	—
select	Select with search. Props: options, placeholder, searchPlaceholder, value, onChange, style, ariaLabel.	—
phone-input	Phone input with country code selector. Props: placeholder, value, onChange, style, ariaLabel.	countries-phone-masks
table	Table composition. Props: columns, data, getRowKey.	—

Running locally (development)

From the monorepo root or from packages/nectary-cli:

pnpm --filter nectary build

Then from the project where you want to add a composition:

node /path/to/nectary/packages/nectary-cli/dist/index.js add select

Or from packages/nectary-cli:

node dist/index.js add select

Adding a new composition to the registry

• Add the composition source in this package under registry/<name>/ (e.g. registry/select/Search.tsx). You can add whatever props you want; these files are the single source of truth for the CLI and are independent of the docs.
• Edit registry.json in this package. Add an item with:
  • name – Kebab-case id used in nectary add <name>.
  • description – Short description.
  • dependencies – Array of npm package names (e.g. "zod", "@hookform/resolvers").
  • files – Array of { "path": "OutputPath/File.tsx", "source": "registry/<name>/File.tsx" }.
    path is where the file will be written in the user's project (relative to their components path). source is relative to this package root (e.g. registry/select/Search.tsx).
• Rebuild the registry: from packages/nectary-cli, run pnpm run build (or pnpm run build:registry after tsc). This reads the manifest and writes dist/registry/<name>.json.
• Publish the nectary package so users can run npx @nectary/cli add <name>.