@imazzine/cli

The core module of the zz command-line interface. It brings zz add and zz remove commands to the terminal which allows you to plugged-in/out any other compatible command under zz namespace to build your custom CLI toolset.

@imazzine/cli built with the JavaScript and uses the commander.js API under the hood, which means that pluggable commands needs to be implemented with the one of the most popular command-line interface solution for the node.js.

Prerequisites

@imazzine/cli uses ES6 Modules internally, so it depends on node.js v14+. No any other requirements or constraints are provided.

Installation

@imazzine/cli was designed as a globally installed utility. You can perform installation via npm:

$ npm i -g @imazzine/cli

or yarn:

$ yarn global add @imazzine/cli

Pluggable commands interface

As already was mentioned, @imazzine/cli uses commander.js under the hood.

Command, pluggable to the @imazzine/cli -- is a simple JavaScript module (in general just a simple .js file) which exports as a default (in terms of ES6 Modules) valid JavaScript function.

This function will be called with the single parameter -- program, which is an instance of commander.js program interface.

Internally your plugin could perform any operations with the program interface according to the official documentation to configure additional CLI commands.

So, the simplest example could looks like this:

// ~/zz-plugins/tmp.js
export default function(program) {
  program
    .command('tmp')
    .description('tmp')
    .action((subject, command) => {
      console.log('cmd tmp!');
    });
}

Usage

After installation you can run zz help command in you terminal.

$ zz help
zz [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version            output the version number
  -h, --help               display help for command

Commands:
  add <subject> <path>     add specified <subject> (either "command" or "project") to @imazzine/cli
  remove <subject> <path>  remove specified <subject> (either "command" or "project") from @imazzine/cli
  help [command]           display help for command

To add tmp command from the example above, you should run:

$ zz add command ~/zz-plugins/tmp.js

zz add command will resolve absolute path and locally and globally installed node modules. So, your plugins could be distributed in a different ways.

After your command was plugged-in, you are able to use it:

$ zz tmp
cmd tmp!

To remove previously added command you need to run:

$ zz remove command ~/zz-plugins/tmp.js

Contributing

@imazzine/cli is mostly driven by the maintainers and definitely needed community contributions. Any contribution helps us keeping this project running.

Please read the contributing guidelines.