What is sweet-repl?
sweet-repl is a jumpstart for nodejs repl creation that provides some utility methods for your context and a customizable help. It's based on cluster/lib/plugins/repl.js at master · LearnBoost/cluster for the repl implementation and help from visionmedia/commander.js
Installation
$ npm install sweet-repl
Example
/** * Module dependencies. */ var sweetRepl = ; sweetRepl start prompt: 'sweet-repl>' 20000;
$ telnet localhost 20000
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
sweet-repl>help()
HELP
----
help(): Display help information
foo(str): prints foo:<str>
bar(str): prints bar:<str>
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'Thanks for using sweet-repl by <jesse@piascik.net>'
sweet-repl>foo('bar')
foo: bar
'bar'
sweet-repl>bar('foo')
bar: foo
'foo'
sweet-repl>.exit
this helper functions in commands
title(str)
prints [str]
in cyan with preceding and trailing line feed
keyVal(key, val)
prints [key]: [val]
in gray with trailing line feed
prinln(str)
prints [str]
with trailing line feed
Roadmap
- Provide a custom help solution like commander
License
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2014 Jesse Piacik jesse@piascik.net
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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