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I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

by igitur 9y ago

luizbranco 9y ago
Any language in particular? For JavaScript I'd recommend https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js
- fabiospampinato 9y ago
  I agree. I've published a package that exposes a few convenience methods written using it, including a cool one for printing a table (which detects the width of the terminal window and hides extra columns automatically). Check it out https://github.com/fabiospampinato/inquirer-helpers https://github.com/fabiospampinato/inquirer-helpers
baliex 9y ago
I'd be interested in something like this for python
- aoeusnth1 9y ago
  Me too, I would definitely use a fancy python CLI library.
- quodlibetor 9y ago
  prompt_toolkit is, IMO, the standard by which all of these types of libraries should be measured. It's incredibly easy to get started with, and lets you build crazy wonderful things like pt_python and pgcli/mycli.
  - cosud 9y ago
    For REPL like things prompt_toolkit is great. For anything else (menus, forms) i find it difficult to use or at least discouraging.
jernfrost 9y ago
While not quite the same, the REPL of the Julia programming language supports modes as plugins. Out of the box there is the Julia mode for writing julia code, shell mode for shell commands and help mode for getting help on functions. But I've seen lots of interesting ways of extending this. E.g. one of the debuggers for Julia, Gallium simply adds some new modes. So you can be in stepping-through-code-mode and then at any time switch back to Julia mode and inspect variables at that point in the execution stack. Another mode is a package mode being developed for the new Julia package manager. So when adding, removing, updating, creating etc packages you can go into package mode and get behavior relevant to working with packages. I had the idea of creating a mode for a board game, e.g. a Settlers of Catan mode, which is focused on issuing commands relevant to that game.
shakna 9y ago
I feel the need to mention "newt" [0][1] here. It's the C library behind whiptail, a reimplementation of dialog, which is a cli app for making menus. Incidentally, dialog is usually what you see when you get a semi-gui install with many Linux distributions. Being C, you can use it with just about everything. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_%28programming_library%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_%28programming_library%29 [1] https://pagure.io/newt https://pagure.io/newt
floatboth 9y ago
I made https://github.com/myfreeweb/interactor https://github.com/myfreeweb/interactor for Rust
j_s 9y ago
Suprised to not see ncurses mentioned anywhere yet. Not sure it's an exact match but it's well supported in the same ballpark.
igitur 9y ago
Anything like this for a .NET command line application?

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

by igitur 9y ago

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

Any language in particular? For JavaScript I'd recommend https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

fabiospampinato 9y ago
I agree. I've published a package that exposes a few convenience methods written using it, including a cool one for printing a table (which detects the width of the terminal window and hides extra columns automatically). Check it out https://github.com/fabiospampinato/inquirer-helpers https://github.com/fabiospampinato/inquirer-helpers

baliex 9y ago

I'd be interested in something like this for python

aoeusnth1 9y ago
Me too, I would definitely use a fancy python CLI library.
quodlibetor 9y ago
prompt_toolkit is, IMO, the standard by which all of these types of libraries should be measured. It's incredibly easy to get started with, and lets you build crazy wonderful things like pt_python and pgcli/mycli.
- cosud 9y ago
  For REPL like things prompt_toolkit is great. For anything else (menus, forms) i find it difficult to use or at least discouraging.

jernfrost 9y ago

While not quite the same, the REPL of the Julia programming language supports modes as plugins. Out of the box there is the Julia mode for writing julia code, shell mode for shell commands and help mode for getting help on functions. But I've seen lots of interesting ways of extending this. E.g. one of the debuggers for Julia, Gallium simply adds some new modes. So you can be in stepping-through-code-mode and then at any time switch back to Julia mode and inspect variables at that point in the execution stack. Another mode is a package mode being developed for the new Julia package manager. So when adding, removing, updating, creating etc packages you can go into package mode and get behavior relevant to working with packages. I had the idea of creating a mode for a board game, e.g. a Settlers of Catan mode, which is focused on issuing commands relevant to that game.

shakna 9y ago

I feel the need to mention "newt" [0][1] here. It's the C library behind whiptail, a reimplementation of dialog, which is a cli app for making menus. Incidentally, dialog is usually what you see when you get a semi-gui install with many Linux distributions. Being C, you can use it with just about everything. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_%28programming_library%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_%28programming_library%29 [1] https://pagure.io/newt https://pagure.io/newt

floatboth 9y ago

I made https://github.com/myfreeweb/interactor https://github.com/myfreeweb/interactor for Rust

j_s 9y ago

Suprised to not see ncurses mentioned anywhere yet. Not sure it's an exact match but it's well supported in the same ballpark.

igitur 9y ago

Anything like this for a .NET command line application?