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Vorpal: a framework for interactive CLIs in Node.js

81 points by dc2 11y ago

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keyle 11y ago
This is cool but I still scratch myself as to what I'd want to use this for. Most often, I need UI, because I need to be monitoring flowing information + take action when/where need be. In that sense, what would be more useful is a framework giving an interface like the old Norton Commander or Htop. Is there any thing like that in node?
- dc2 11y ago
  The main use I intended for this is to make it ridiculously easy to make useful developer tools - CLIs come really natural to devs, and so I tried to make something a ton of people could build off of to make a ton of cool tools. An example of a project I want to get to using it is a database CLI app - it can save your credentials, lets you connect to and query the db, give auto-completed suggestions, etc. This is now really easy to do in Javascript, and you just couldn't do that before very easily. On your question, yeah - there is something Norton Commander-ish - it's a library called blessed, by Christopher Jeffrey, who's pretty boss at CLI apps: https://github.com/chjj/blessed https://github.com/chjj/blessed
  - goldfeld 11y ago
    Blessed is awesome--I'll plug the ClojureScript UI framework I'm building on top of it: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n And by the way great work with vorpal, I'm kind of rolling my own CLI command trickery in an app/platform I'm building on top of i9n (kind of a platform to integrate dev tools like a database app, a pluggable IDE of sorts), but I'll probably put Vorpal into i9n soon and use its many features from there.
    - dc2 11y ago
      Thanks! Your project looks pretty cool!
  - keyle 11y ago
    Will check it out. Thanks!
  - reed1 11y ago
    I'd love to see that sql cli app of yours. Is that available for public?
    - dc2 11y ago
      Ah haha - it's an idea. I have two other Vorpal apps I'm making right now, and then after they're done that would be the next one I would make.
    - dc2 11y ago
      Ah haha - it's an idea. I have two other Vorpal apps I'm making right now, and then after they're done that would be the next one I would make.
- octalmage 11y ago
  I mostly use it with Vantage for debugging. If you haven't seen Vantage, check it out! https://github.com/dthree/vantage/ https://github.com/dthree/vantage/

81 points by dc2 11y ago

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keyle 11y ago

This is cool but I still scratch myself as to what I'd want to use this for. Most often, I need UI, because I need to be monitoring flowing information + take action when/where need be. In that sense, what would be more useful is a framework giving an interface like the old Norton Commander or Htop. Is there any thing like that in node?

dc2 11y ago
The main use I intended for this is to make it ridiculously easy to make useful developer tools - CLIs come really natural to devs, and so I tried to make something a ton of people could build off of to make a ton of cool tools. An example of a project I want to get to using it is a database CLI app - it can save your credentials, lets you connect to and query the db, give auto-completed suggestions, etc. This is now really easy to do in Javascript, and you just couldn't do that before very easily. On your question, yeah - there is something Norton Commander-ish - it's a library called blessed, by Christopher Jeffrey, who's pretty boss at CLI apps: https://github.com/chjj/blessed https://github.com/chjj/blessed
- goldfeld 11y ago
  Blessed is awesome--I'll plug the ClojureScript UI framework I'm building on top of it: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n And by the way great work with vorpal, I'm kind of rolling my own CLI command trickery in an app/platform I'm building on top of i9n (kind of a platform to integrate dev tools like a database app, a pluggable IDE of sorts), but I'll probably put Vorpal into i9n soon and use its many features from there.
  - dc2 11y ago
    Thanks! Your project looks pretty cool!
- keyle 11y ago
  Will check it out. Thanks!
- reed1 11y ago
  I'd love to see that sql cli app of yours. Is that available for public?
  - dc2 11y ago
    Ah haha - it's an idea. I have two other Vorpal apps I'm making right now, and then after they're done that would be the next one I would make.
  - dc2 11y ago
    Ah haha - it's an idea. I have two other Vorpal apps I'm making right now, and then after they're done that would be the next one I would make.
octalmage 11y ago
I mostly use it with Vantage for debugging. If you haven't seen Vantage, check it out! https://github.com/dthree/vantage/ https://github.com/dthree/vantage/