baapan

Baapan

Baapan brings the all of the NPM goodness right into your REPL. On-demand!!.

Using Node REPL for quick local testing is a common practice among JavaScript/Node developers. But the problem with the REPL is, you don't have the luxury to take advantage of the entire NPM ecosystem out-of-the-box.

An alternative is, using something like RunKit. But fiddling with sensitive data in an online tool is not the best choice for many developers.

While using Node REPL, if you feel you need an NPM module to quickly test something (e.g, lodash to do some quick object/array manipulation, uuid to quickly generate some uuid), you'll have to manually install it via NPM and load it onto the REPL.

Here's the cool part!!

Baapan intercepts require() calls and automatically install the module if the module is not locally available. You can require() whatever you want, and Baapan will require() it for you? Don't you think it's cool??

Getting Started

Step 1: Install baapan globally

Simply run:

npm install -g baapan

This will install baapan CLI command.

Step 2: Load Baapan

You can launch Baapan by just running baapan command on terminal after installation. baapan will launch the NodeJS REPL for you.

$ baapan

That's it. You can now require() everything you want!!

This time I need to generate a random IP address. I can require chance to do that.

Creating workspace...
Initializing workspace...
Workspace loaded!
> const chance = require('chance').Chance()
undefined
> chance.ip()
'213.15.210.129'

Feel free to drop any issues/feature requests/PRs at any time!!

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