Stacks CLI

The simple way to build beautiful CLIs.

☘️ Features

• 🎨 Easily create beautiful CLI apps
• ⚡️ Lightweight, user-friendly, interactive prompts
• 🚦 Elegant terminal spinners
• ⛑️ Helper methods to run commands

🤖 Usage

bun install -d @stacksjs/cli

Now, you can use it in your project:

// command.ts
// you may create create a relatively complex CLI UI/UX via the following:
import { ExitCode, command, italic, prompts, spawn, spinner } from '@stacksjs/cli'

const stacks = command('stacks')

stacks
  .command('example', 'A dummy command') // bun buddy example
  .option('-i, --install', 'The install option', { default: true })
  .action(async (options) => {
    if (options.install)
      await install()

    const answer = await prompts.select({
      type: 'select',
      message: 'Are you trying to run this command?',
      choices: [
        { title: 'Run the command', value: 'run' },
        { title: 'Do not run the command', value: 'do-not-run' },
      ],
    })

    if (answer === 'run')
      install()
    else if (answer === 'do-not-run')
      log.info('Not running the command')
    else process.exit(ExitCode.InvalidArgument)
  })

async function install() {
  try {
    const spin = spinner('Running...').start()
    setTimeout(() => {
      spin.text = italic('This may take a few moments...')
    }, 5000)
    await spawn('bun install')
    spin.stop()
  }
  catch (error) {
    log.error(error)
  }
}

command.help() // automatically expose a -h and --help flag
command.version(version) // automatically expose a -v and --version flag
command.parse() // parse the command

You may now run the command via:

bun command.ts

To view a more detailed example, check out Buddy.

You may also use any of the following CLI utilities:

import {
  ansi256Bg,
  bgBlack,
  bgBlue,
  bgCyan,
  bgGray,
  bgGreen,
  bgLightBlue,
  bgLightCyan,
  bgLightGray,
  bgLightGreen,
  bgLightMagenta,
  bgLightRed,
  bgLightYellow,
  bgMagenta,
  bgRed,
  bgWhite,
  bgYellow,
  black,
  blue,
  bold,
  cyan,
  dim,
  gray,
  green,
  hidden,
  inverse,
  italic,
  lightBlue,
  lightCyan,
  lightGray,
  lightGreen,
  lightMagenta,
  lightRed,
  lightYellow,
  link,
  magenta,
  red,
  reset,
  strikethrough,
  underline,
  white,
  yellow
} from '@stacksjs/cli'

log.info(`hello ${bold(italic('world'))}`)

To view the full documentation, please visit https://stacksjs.org/cli.

🧪 Testing

bun test

📈 Changelog

Please see our releases page for more information on what has changed recently.

🚜 Contributing

Please review the Contributing Guide for details.

🏝 Community

For help, discussion about best practices, or any other conversation that would benefit from being searchable:

Discussions on GitHub

For casual chit-chat with others using this package:

Join the Stacks Discord Server

🙏🏼 Credits

Many thanks to the following core technologies & people who have contributed to this package:

• CAC
• Ora
• Consola
• Chris Breuer
• All Contributors

📄 License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.

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