node-command-line-starter

Progammers are lazy. As soon as we have to do the same task over and over again we start on automizing it. Automization is often done in the form of a command line utility.

This starter provides you with all the necessary setup to quickly create your node-command-line utility. Focus on your util and don't loose time with the project setup.

The starter provides you with a setup to perform fully automated releases with Github Actions. Publish new versions quickly and automated to your npm repositiory.

What's included?

Language

This starter allows you to write your command line util in TypeScript. 💪

Testing

• Jest - JavaScript Testing Framework
• Jest configurations to mock third party libaries
• Sample tests

Command line utils

• Commander - Complete solution for node.js command-line interfaces.
• Chalk - Terminal string styling
• Boxen - Create boxes in terminal

Dev utilities

• Prettier - Code formater
• Commitizen Util that helps to create conventional commit messages
• Commitlint Lint your commit messages to ensure you use conventional commits
• Husky and Lint-staged to run prettier on each commit on staged files. Husky is also used to run commitlint on a commit.

Build tools

• Codecov - Integration to upload your coverage report to codecov
• Release Please - All the setup to use Release Please. Bump versions, update CHANGELOG.md, and publish your command line utility to npm by using conventional commits
• Github Actions CI/CD - Setup to test, lint, and typecheck your code, on each PR and push to master. Also includes the setup to publish your package to npm on a merge to master (using Release Please)

Folder structure

|__ mocks Folder that contains the mocks for third party libraries

|__ bin contains your file with the commander instructions - this is the entry to your command line tool

|__ src contains your implementation and the logic - is called by the file in your bin folder

Getting started

Development

1. Fork this repo
2. Adjust the URLs and names in package.json
3. Adjust the files in bin, src and mocks
4. Adjust the bin command in package.json

Setup npm account

Sign up on https://www.npmjs.com/.

Setup CI

1. Get an NPM token from https://www.npmjs.com/
2. Add the token to your repository secrets on Github as NPM_TOKEN

Visualize coverage

To visualize coverage just sign up on https://codecov.io/. Go to Settings and copy the token. Add this token as CODECOV_TOKEN to your travis repository settings.

Merge your feature branch into master

Use conventional commit messages for your commits. A merge on master will then analyze the commits, automatically bump the version, create the release assets and then publish the package.