ts-cli-template

A starter project for creating node cli commands with Typescript. It comes with pre-configured / pre-installed:

yarn package manager
eslint with Typescript support
airbnb-typescript/base eslint profile
prettier for code formatting
husky with pre-configured for pre-commit and pre-push hooks
commander for handling command line argument and cli help.

Clone

You can clone the project from Github: https://github.com/killerchip/ts-cli-template

or use Github's Generate from template project feature.

Once you cloned the project you might want to change project's name in

package.json > name
package.json > bin key. This will be the cli command that your users will use when launching your program.
src/cli.ts: The name of your cli command in help files.

Entry point

Start building your code around src/index.ts that's the entry point.

eslint and prettier

When you commit your code, the parts you touched will be automatically go through prettier transformation.

When you push your code, it will go also under eslint investigation. If problems found the code won't be pushed.

Manually checking eslint rules:

yarn lint

Manually running prettier on all files, automatically formatting them.

yarn prettier

Modify .eslintignore, .eslintrc.js, .prettierignore, .prettierrc.js to adjust eslint and prettier behavior

See https://eslint.org/ and https://prettier.io/ for more details.

commander

cli.ts has sample code for using commander to automatically build help description and handling command line options.

See https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander for more details.

License - MIT

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.