🌟 Bensberry Terminal Card

A professional, interactive CLI business card built with Node.js.

🚀 Usage

Anyone can view your card by running:

npx bensberry

🛠️ Features

• Live Updates: Fetches data from a Secret GitHub Gist, allowing content changes without system updates.
• Interactive REPL: A custom command-line interface inside the card (/help, /message, /top, /response, /ask).
• Secure Messaging: Integrates with Formspree to allow users to send you messages directly from their terminal.
• Rich Design: Uses boxen for layout and chalk for vibrant terminal colors.

📖 Technical Architecture

1. Dynamic Content Fetching

We use fetch with a ?t=${Date.now()} cache-buster. This ensures that every time someone runs your card, they get the latest message from your Gist, even if GitHub tries to cache the raw file.

2. Custom REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop)

Instead of a simple "Press any key to exit," we implemented a readline interface. This keeps the terminal "alive" and allows you to process slash commands like /message.

3. Side-by-Side Rendering

To create the "Split UI" (ASCII art on the left, card on the right), we split the strings into arrays of lines and joined them line-by-line using padEnd() to ensure exact alignment.

📈 Learning from this project

• Async/Await: Used for non-blocking network calls.
• Process Streams: Interacting with process.stdin and process.stdout.
• NPM Publishing: Configuring bin and type: module for global execution.