newshell

🐚 cross-platform library to execute commands in a new shells

When you have many cli apps that takes the whole terminal, it's useful to run them all with a single command

Features

• 👯‍♂️ Attempts to use the current terminal
• 🌏 Cross-platform
• 📄 Runs js files with node
• 🗃 Opens the new shell in current working directory
• 🎛 Supports spliting with iterm2

CLI

Run a command in a new shell

prints "hello world" in a new shell window

newshell "echo 'hello world'"

The new shell will run in the same working directory.

# See for yourself 👀 
 
newshell pwd

You can run multiple shells

newshell "npx tsc --watch" "npx jest --watch"

--file

newshell --file "./script.sh"

Supports running node for javascript files

newshell --file "./script.js"

Node API

command

has the same capabilities of the cli

command(script: string, options: Options): void

type Options = {
  env?: Record<string, string> = {};
  split?: boolean = false;
  splitDirection?: string = "verticaly";
  terminalApp?: string | undefined = $TERM_PROGRAM;
};

file

similar to --file

file(scriptPath: string): void

Future

• Run npm scripts in a new terminal (and resolve bins from the node_modules/.bin directory)
• Controll the focus of the terminal window
• Pass environment parameters from the CLI
• Manage IPC with the other terminal window (similar to child_process.fork)