npm-pray 🙏

A fun CLI tool that prints developer prayers to brighten your coding day!

Installation

Install globally via npm:

npm install -g npm-pray

Usage

After installation, you can use the pray command anywhere in your terminal:

# Get a random developer prayer
pray

# Get the same prayer all day
pray --daily

# Get prayers with a specific tag
pray --tag deploy

# List all available tags
pray --list

# Reset all state and start fresh
pray --reset

# Show help
pray --help

Features

• Randomized prayers: Never see the same prayer twice until you've seen them all
• Daily prayers: Get the same motivational prayer for the entire day
• Tagged prayers: Filter by specific development activities
• Local state: No network calls, everything stored locally
• Deck shuffle: Uses Fisher-Yates algorithm for fair randomization

Available Tags

• build - Build and compilation prayers
• deploy - Deployment and release prayers
• test - Testing and QA prayers
• git - Version control prayers
• lint - Code quality prayers
• ops - Operations and infrastructure prayers
• qa - Quality assurance prayers
• focus - Focus and debugging prayers

Examples

pray
# 🙏 May your code compile on the first try.

pray --daily
# ✨ May your tests always pass. (same prayer all day)

pray --tag deploy
# 🚀 May your deploys be boring and quick.

pray --list
# Available tags: build, deploy, test, git, lint, ops, qa, focus

pray --reset
# 🧽 Cleared local state. Fresh start. 🙏

How It Works

The tool maintains a local state file at ~/.config/npm-pray/state.json that tracks:

• Shuffled deck of all prayers (no repeats until deck is empty)
• Individual decks for each tag
• Daily prayer cache

License

MIT

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues and pull requests to add more prayers or features!