GitHub Languages CLI

CLI to search languages that are identified by GitHub.

Uses the github-languages-client.

Installation

npm install github-languages-cli -g

Usage

ghlang

Emoji explanation

• Language Type
  • Programming: 🖥️
  • Data: 📊
  • Markup: 📓
  • Prose: 🖋️
• Language Family: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
  • Not all languages have a "family" or "group" attribute
  • An example of a language with a language group is JSX, which is part of the JavaScript language group
• Searchable: 🔍
  • If a language is "searchable" i.e. it can be used in Advanced Search (and similar features)
• ID: 🆔
  • Every language has an internal id
• GitHub language identifier for syntax highlighting: 🖊️