parsec

Features | Install | Usage | Examples

Parsec is a tiny CLI parser.

Features

• Based in the UNIX Utility Conventions
• Custom aliases

• Default shorthands

• Default values / types
• Handle --no-* options
• Handle unknown options

Install

npm install parsec

Usage

// ./index.js -par5ec
parse()

{
  "p": true,
  "a": true,
  "r": "5ec"
}

Customize:

// ./index.js -s42
parse("secret", ["verbose", "V", { default: true }])

{
  "s": 42,
  "secret": 42,
  "V": true,
  "verbose": true
}

Usage

Parse process.argv by default.

import parse from "parsec"
parse(alias1, alias2, ...)

• Custom aliases

// ./index.js --bar
parse(["foo", "bar", "baz"])

{
  "foo": true,
  "bar": true,
  "baz": true
}

• Example aliases

"foo" // → ["f", "foo"]
["F", "f", "foo"]
["foo", { default: "./" }]
["baz", { default: true }]

• Default shorthands

// ./index.js -fb
parse("foo", "bar")

{
  "f": true,
  "foo": true,
  "b": true,
  "bar": true,
}

• Default values and types

// ./index.js --file
parse(["f", "file", { default: "." }])

{
  "f": ".",
  "file": "."
}

• Handle --no-flags

// ./index.js --no-foo --no-bar=baz
parse()

{
  "foo": false,
  "no-bar": "baz"
}

• Handle unknown options

// ./index.js --bar
parse("foo", (option) => {
  throw new RangeError(`unknown option ${option}`) // bar
})

• Bare operands and arguments after -- are added to ._. To override:

parse(["_", "alias"])

• Bind parse to a different source of arguments:

parse.call(["--foo", "--bar"], [alias1, alias2, ...])

Examples

// ./node index.js -f bar -bp
parse()

{
  "f": "bar",
  "b": true,
  "p": "./"
}

with custom aliases:

parse("foo", "bar", ["path", { default: "./" }])

{
  "f": "bar",
  "foo": "bar",
  "b": true,
  "bar": true,
  "p": "./",
  "path": "./"
}