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The localkit package is an open-source command-line interface (CLI) designed to streamline your web development workflow. It provides a suite of tools for common tasks, including secure password generation, Base64URL encoding/decoding, UUID creation, OTP
The localkit
package is an open-source command-line interface (CLI) designed to streamline your web development workflow. It provides a suite of tools for common tasks, including secure password generation, Base64URL encoding/decoding, UUID creation, OTP management, encryption, hashing, favicon creation, PWA asset generation, and Material Icon installation.
The modules are:
Install the CLI Globally
npm install -g localkit
# can be updated with
npm update -g localkit
Run it with:
localkit
If you wish to make use of the LocaLKit CLI to perform sensitive operations, I suggest that you fork this repository and lock all dependencies in the package.json
file (equivalent to using the --save-exact
flag) for security reasons.
Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:your-username/localkit.git
Install the dependencies
npm install
Run it
npm start
# unit tests
npm run test:unit
# integration tests
npm run test:integration
npm publish
FAQs
The localkit package is an open-source command-line interface (CLI) designed to streamline your web development workflow. It provides a suite of tools for common tasks, including secure password generation, Base64URL encoding/decoding, UUID creation, OTP
The npm package localkit receives a total of 19 weekly downloads. As such, localkit popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that localkit demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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