create-cli-application

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A bootstrapper for creating a cli application with Node.

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage
• Built Using
• Authors
• Acknowledgments

🧐 About

I generally use a template when developing CLI applications for myself. I want to share that same template with you, in an easy to use bootstrapper that mirrors the simplicity of starting a new application with create-react-app. Thus, create-cli-application was born.

🏁 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node (>= v10.0.0)
• NPM

OS

• MacOS
• Linux
• Windows

Installing

npm install -g create-cli-application

🎈 Usage

create-cli-application cool-app-name

Changing the Source Language

By deafault, create-cli-application will create your application as a JavaScript project. You can pass the --typescript flag to create a TypeScript project instead.

create-cli-application cool-app-name --typescript

Want support for an additional language? Feel free to open a new issue.

Interactive Mode

You can choose to use the application in an interactive mode by passing the flag --interactive.

⛏️ Built Using

• @sentry/node - Sentry is cross-platform application monitoring, with a focus on error reporting.
• boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
• chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
• clear - Clear the terminal screen if possible.
• commander - Node.js command-line interfaces made easy.
• configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
• fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs().
• inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
• ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
• pickitt - When you need a computer to just pick it, reach for Pickitt!
• semver - The semver parser for node (the one npm uses).
• TypeScript - A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
• update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
• validate-npm-package-name - Is the given string an acceptable npm package name?

✍️ Authors

• Alex Lee - Application Developer

🚀 Additional Features to Be Added

• Compiler Choice
• Formatter Choice
• Linter Choice
• Menu Styling

🎉 Acknowledgements

• Some inspiration from the developers behind create-react-app.
• Martin Rosenberg - Beta Tester and Dev Friend :)
• Craig Lam - Beta Tester and Dev Friend :)