FreshREPL

FreshREPL is a drop-in replacement for the default node REPL that:

• speaks babel / es6 by default
• automatically resolves / displays output from promise calls
• keeps history (at the time I wrote this, babel-node did not)
• supports hot reloading
• comes with built in display helpers like:
  • figlet for ascii art
  • emoji with node-emoji
  • tables with cli-table
  • spinners

Customize it

You can customize it through a .freshrepl file in process.cwd(). It can be written in es6.

// Passed an instance of the CLI in case you wish to display anything
// Passed The options and context variables that will be used to create the server / initialize context
export const before = (cli, options, context) => ({ })
 
 
// Passed when the server is initialized, and any time the reset event gets called (the repl .clear command)
export const after = (serverInstance, options, context) => ({})

TODO

• Webpack compiler integration