ctxcmdr

I know, I know.. terrible name. This is a utility app I'm sharing with the people I work with. When I have some more time, I'm going to make it better and put it in a proper project.

Setup

To install npm install -g @cthru/ctxcmdr After installation it will prompt you for a command name / script folder name. Just stick to the default (dev)

Usage

For many projects I have a /dev folder containing node cli utilities to help automate the project. Usually, I would just go to the root of the project and do dev/log to run the log watching script. However, if I am in some subfolder.. I have to first go to my project root to run the utility script or deal relative paths. Nobody likes to do ../../dev/log

This utility lives globally under the command you selected (dev) by default. If you run dev log it will look for the first /dev folder in the hierarchy that contains a log script and will then execute that script

If you run dev without arguments, it will find all the /dev folders up the folder tree and list all the executables (chmod +x) files. Start typing to filter and selecting a task will execute it.

Now I can be wherever in my project and do dev log without having to hunt for the script

That is all this does.

Needless to say, if you decide to use a different command - say d - then it will look in .../d/* for scripts rather than in .../dev/*

Don't look at the code - it is horrible. You have been warned. If do though, and you squint, you may see a quick example implementation of generators as used to find the script folders and script files.

Create a script folder

dev --init-script-folder will create ./dev and do npm init -y

Create a script

dev --create-script <scriptname> will create a new @cthru/cmdr style script after doing the same as --init-script-folder