timbers

Argh! Shiver me timbers. The timbers library is a natural extension to argh. It allows you to easily transform short hand CLI flags into their long hand counter parts.

Installation

The package is published to npm and can be installed by running:

npm install --save timbers

Usage

const timbers = require('timbers');
const argh = require('argh');
 
const defaults = {
  cwd: process.cwd().
  foo: 'bar'
};
 
const args = timbers([
  '-c, --cwd'
], { ...defaults, ...argh.argv });
 
console.log(args);
 
//
// { cwd: process.cwd(), foo: 'bar' }   // No values passed
// { cwd: 'bar', foo: 'bar' }           // -c bar
// { cwd: 'bar', foo: 'bar' }           // --cwd bar
//

While the library was designed with argh in mind, it will work with any object. It accepts the following arguments:

• flags, Array, An array of strings that contain the mapping of short to long flags. For example: -r, --require. You can also map multiple short flags to a long flag: -r, -e, --require.
• arg, Object, Object with values that should be used as data source.

License

MIT