Command-line clients are everywhere. Almost everyone, at least in tech, is using them.
Many successful command-line clients are available: the Linux project has Git, and the Node.js project has npm. We use some of them multiple times a day. Apache CouchDB recently got nmo (pronounced nemo), a tool to manage the database cluster. We can learn a lot from successful command-line interfaces in order to write better command-line clients.
When I started to become interested in command-line clients, I realized that the Web hosts a lot of discussions and information about writing APIs. The Web is full of tutorials that can teach you how to build APIs, especially REST APIs, but almost nothing can be found about writing good commandline interfaces (CLIs). This book explains what makes a good CLI. In the second part of the book, you will build a small command-line client to learn how to use Node.js to create great command-line clients that people love.
The goal of the book is to show the principles for building a successful command-line client. The provided code should give you a good understanding of what is important to build successful command-line clients and how to implement them.
Every section has its own code examples. Before you run the code, you have to run npm install in the folder provided for that section.
I hope you enjoy the book.
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