What is forge-cli?

It's the beginning of a simple cli framework heavily inspired by Laravel Artisan. Specifically the way they handle anonymous cli commands and registering new commands. I'm not saying the code base is based upon it. Just the way you interact with everything.

So how do I use it?

yarn add forge-cli

or

node add --save forge-cli

then somewhere in you script

var Application = require('forge-cli');
// and register a command like so.
Application.register(__dirname, [
    './relative/path/from/__dirname/to/file'
])
// and individual commands like so
Application.command('command {argument} --option', function() {
    // your code here!
})

docs

Registering new commands

Eventually this will be done more simply; however, at this moment I have only added support though.

If we wanted to register the usage of the following command node index.js your:command MyArgument --yourOption=no

the code we would need to make it work is below.

Application.command('your:command {yourArgument} {--yourOption}', function() {
    // Your code to execute when the command is called.
    // this.option('yourOption') will either return the 
    // value it's set equal to (in the example it would be the word "no",
    // true if it exists, or false if it doesn't exist.
    
    // this.argument('yourArgument') will return the text that's passed
    // in it's place (in the example it would be the word "MyArgument") or null
});

Real life example.

If you have a webhook that you want to post to you might do something like:

'use strict';
let Application = require('forge-cli');
    // I'm using axios to make an http request, you can use anything in this closure,
    // I just like axios for http requests...
let axios = require('axios');

// Register your command
Application.command('http:post {url} {--https}', function() {
    let isSecure = this.option('https'),
        urlToPostTo = this.argument('url');
    // Use axios to post to the url
    axios.post((isSecure? 'https://' : 'http://') + urlToPostTo, {})
        .then(response => {
            console.log(response.status)
        })
});

let args = Object.assign({}, {args: process.argv});

// This "starts" the application
Application.start(args);

Then to use this command you can just type (in your console)

node index.js http:post example.com or node index.js http:post example.com --https And the url's they'll hit are http://example.com and https://example.com respectively.

Helpers?

You have full access to the inquirer library via this.inquirer in your command's closure.