kool-shell

🎤📺🎶 A minimal module to deal with shell

Features

• 1 dependency (support-color)
• Native promises from Nodejs
• Shell commands with silent & inherited stdio
• Ansi Colors + Auto-detects color support
• Log methods with 4 log levels
• User input with hidden input option
• List input with multiple or single choice
• Awesome emoji-based spinner
• Progressbar
• Create and add your own kool-shell plugins easily
• Cool emojis!

Requirements

• Node > 8
• npm > 5
• ANSI/VT100 compatible terminal

Installation

npm install --save kool-shell

Usage

Create a new kool-shell instance

const sh = require('kool-shell')
sh.warn(sh.colors.gray('Display a gray warning'))
 
// You can also use object destructuring
const { warn, colors } = require('kool-shell')
warn(colors.gray('Display a gray warning'))

Namespacing

It can be useful to not share kool-shell configuration and state when dealing with multiple modules. You can specify a namespace using the kool-shell/namespaced module.

const sh1 = require('kool-shell/namespaced')('MyModule')
sh1.setLogOptions(globalPrefix: '[MyModule] ')
sh1.log('Customized log for the MyModule namespace')
 
const sh2 = require('kool-shell')
sh2.log('This log will not have the [MyModule] prefix')

Kool-shell features

All features are basically native plugins, always available in kool-shell.
See the Plugins section below to learn how to create & add your own plugins.

• Log - Log functions
• Colors - Add colors to your log messages
• Progressbar - Display a progressbar
• Spinner - Display a spinner
• Exec - Execute a promised shell command
• Input - User prompt with hidden input option
• Select - Select/Radio input
• Cleanup - Do some actions before exiting your app
• Exit - Simple alias of process.exit(code)

Plugins

Add a plugin

Add a plugin with sh.use(plugin, [options]). You can specify options for your plugin.

const koolPlugin = require('kool-shell-plugin')
sh.use(koolPlugin, { colors: false })

Create a plugin

Plugin template

module.exports = myPlugin (sh, opts = {}) {
  return {
    sayHello () {
      // kool-shell native features are always available from the sh object.
      // for instance, you can easily use colors using sh.colors method
      opts.gray
        ? console.log('hello.')
        : console.log(sh.colors.gray('hello'))
    }
  }
}
 

Two arguments will be passed when your plugin is used through sh.use():

• sh is the kool-shell instance used
• opts is the options object passed trough sh.use(plugin, options)

Your plugin need to be a function that return an object. When your plugin is used, the returned object will be merged into the api object of the kool-shell instance.

⚠️ Method/Property will be overiden if a new one has the same name. Namespace your plugin api if you use common method names

To do

• Test all native features

License

MIT.