🚀 Aliastron

A beautiful, interactive CLI tool to manage your Electron application aliases with style!

✨ Features

• 🎨 Beautiful UI - Colorful gradients, ASCII art banner, and styled tables
• 🖱️ Interactive Menus - Easy-to-use arrow key navigation
• 📋 List Aliases - View all your Electron app aliases in a formatted table
• ➕ Create Aliases - Add new Electron app shortcuts with validation
• 🗑️ Remove Aliases - Multi-select checkboxes to remove multiple aliases at once
• ✅ Input Validation - Ensures proper alias names and URLs
• 🔄 Persistent Storage - Stores aliases in ~/.electron-apps
• 🔗 Auto .bashrc Integration - Automatically configures your shell

📦 Installation

From npm (Recommended)

# Install globally
npm install -g aliastron

# Run it
aliastron
# or use aliases
electron-manager
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From Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/aliastron.git
cd aliastron

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally
npm start

# Or link globally
npm link
aliastron

🎮 Usage

Simply run the application:

node index.js

Or if installed globally:

electron-manager

Menu Options

1. 📋 List all aliases - Display all configured Electron app aliases
2. ➕ Create new alias - Add a new Electron app shortcut
3. 🗑️ Remove aliases - Select and remove one or more aliases
4. 🚪 Exit - Exit the application

🛠️ How It Works

The tool manages aliases in ~/.electron-apps file and automatically ensures your .bashrc sources this file. Each alias is a shortcut that launches an Electron app with a specified URL.

Example Alias Format

alias myapp="/usr/lib/electron37/electron https://example.com > /dev/null 2>&1 &"

📚 Dependencies

• chalk - Terminal string styling
• inquirer - Interactive command line prompts
• ora - Elegant terminal spinners
• boxen - Create boxes in the terminal
• gradient-string - Beautiful gradient text
• figlet - ASCII art text
• cli-table3 - Pretty tables for the terminal

🎨 Screenshots

The app features:

• Colorful ASCII art banner
• Gradient colored text
• Beautiful boxed messages
• Formatted tables with borders
• Smooth spinners for operations
• Interactive checkboxes and lists

📝 Notes

After creating or removing aliases, remember to either:

• Open a new terminal, OR
• Run: source ~/.electron-apps

📄 License

MIT