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the helpful wombat tool
Commands:
hook control your hooks
package <package> see information about the named package
versions <package> see all available versions for the named package
whoami the username you are authenticated as
Options:
--registry, -r the registry configuration to use [default: "default"]
--json, -j print output as json [boolean] [default: false]
--help Show help [boolean]
--version show version information [boolean]
Help is available for each of the supported commands.
You may also do fun things like wombat ls --depth=0 and npm will be invoked.
Wombat reads its config from the file ~/.wombatrc. This file is parsed as TOML. The defaults look like this:
[default]
registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org"
api = "https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm"
You can add sections for other registries to talk to and point wombat to them using the name of the config section, or change the default to a registry you use more often. For example:
[default]
registry = "https://registry.npmjs.org"
api = "https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm"
[enterprise]
registry = "https://npm-enterprise.private.npmjs.com"
api = "https://api.private.npmjs.com"
Then run something like wombat -r enterprise package @secret/private-package
wombat hook
Commands:
ls [pkg] list your hooks
add <pkg> <url> <secret> add a hook to the named package
update <id> <url> [secret] update an existing hook
rm <id> remove a hook
Examples:
wombat hook add lodash https://example.com/webhook my-shared-secret
wombat hook ls lodash
wombat hook ls --json
wombat hook rm id-ers83f
wombat package yargs shows you a formatted description of the package meta-data. Pass --readme to get the package readme rendered in your terminal as markdown!
wombat versions yargs shows you a list of all dist-tags and versions for the named package (in this case, yargs).
Find out who you are logged in as for the registry you're using.
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FAQs
The wombat cli tool.
The npm package wombat receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, wombat popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that wombat demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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