diplomat-cli

Diplomat

Diplomat makes command line interfaces for nodeJS easy. It's like Thor, but not a norse god and not written for ruby. And each parser is an object, instead of calling a class method directly, because I always thought that was weird.

How easy?

This easy:

let diplomat = require('diplomat-cli')
 
class Echoer extends diplomat {
    echo (flags, message) {
        if (flags['reverse']) {
            console.log(message.split('').reverse().join(''))
        } else {
            console.log(message)
        }
    }
 
    echo_help () {
        return {
            'short': 'Echoes your message.',
            'long': 'Echoes your message, with pizzazz. Is magical.'
        }
    }
 
    echo_flags () {
        return {
            'reverse': {
                'type': 'boolean',
                'default': 'false'
            }
        }
    }
}
 
let echobot = new Echoer()
echobot.parse(process.argv)

Installation

npm install diplomat-cli

Development

This is all written in ES6 and transpiled using babel, so clone the repository and use babel-node to test and node compile to compile. Or babel -o diplomat-compiled.js diplomat.js. Whatever floats your boat.

Disclaimer

This is version 0.1. I'm fairly sure I've ironed out the bugs, but there aren't very many types yet and there's still work to be done. Please mail any complaints, handwritten, to:

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
36391 Sodhouse Ln
Princeton, OR 97721

Or just file a complain using the issue tracker, and I'll try my best to get back to you.