Kenra

An argument parser similar to minimist build for performance. Supports both CommonJS and NodejS modules

Features

• optimized for performance
• lightweight
• 100% minimist compatible
• supports node modules
• supports NodejS modules and CommonJS

Install

 
npm i -S kenra

Usage

Kenra exports a single method, and can be used as CommonJS module or a NodeJS module

Nodejs module

 
import 'kenra' from 'kenra';
 
let argv = kenra(process.argv.slice(2), opts={})
 

CommonJS

var argv = require('kenra')(process.argv.slice(2), opts={})

API

kenra(args, [options])

Return an argument object argv populated with the array arguments from args.

argv._ contains all the arguments that didn't have an option associated with them.

Any arguments after -- will not be parsed and will end up in argv._.

Options can be:

• options.string - a string or array of strings argument names to always treat as strings
• options.boolean - an array of strings to always treat as booleans.
• options.alias - an object mapping string names to strings or arrays of string argument names to use as aliases
• options.array - an array of strings to treat as arrays. (only in rminimist)
• options.number - an array of strings to treat as numbers. (only in rminimist)
• options.default - an object mapping string argument names to default values
• options.stopEarly - when true, populate argv._ with everything after the first non-option
• opts['--'] - when true, populate argv._ with everything before the -- and argv['--'] with everything after the --.

Differences between Kenra and Minimist

Kenra is build for high performance, and prefer that you are explicit. It's 100% minimist compatible with a few exceptions:

Main differences:

• Aliases are not duplicated. They will always resolve to the canonical version.
• Booleans don't default to false (solves Minimist issue #94)
• Values are overridden, not appended as an array
• Order is always preserved (except for numeric keys).
• The unknown option is not supported.
• Unlike Minimist, number-like values are never auto-casted to numbers (solves Minimist issue #87). It has been introduced a number option instead.

// minimist
minimist(['--port', '4000'])
{ _: [], port: 4000 }
 
// Kenra
kenra(['--port', '4000'])
{ _: [], port: '4000' }
 
kenra(['--port', '4000'], { number: ['port'] })
{ _: [], port: 4000 }

• A new option array have been added to make values into an array.

minimist(['--watch=lib', '--watch=test'], { array: ['watch'] })
 
// kenra
{ _: [], watch: ['lib', 'test'] }

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