Creating a command line application using Node

Question

I have a designed a Node application which is based on yeoman which I want it to distribute it to the user using npm.

The thing is after installing the application using node. I want to user to provide several global commands through which he can have ease using my application easily just like command are provided when using grunt or bower or yeoman.

$ bower install <package-name>
$ grunt serve

Similarly I want my application to provide some command so that user can have ease to handle it. let the command be xyz

$ xyz init #will initialize the application and create the scaffolding.

I already have the application designed on node I just want it to provide the application installation using a global command line.

KeatsPeeks · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-23 12:36:06Z

2

Just create a bin script :

package.json :

  "bin": {
    "xyz": "index.js"
  }

index.js :

console.log(process.argv);

Usage :

npm install xyz
xyz foo bar

Outputs :

[ 'node', '/path/to/your/script/file', 'foo', 'bar']

For more information, you can refer to this blog post : Building a simple command line tool with npm

answered Nov 23, 2015 at 12:36

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