create-node-cli

📟 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

• 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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Changelog

RELEASE: 2.0.0

‼️ Require no longer supported moving to ESM based syntax 8e2f2b0

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