It’s easy! I was going through some React article and saw create-react-app command. That made me realise I never bothered checking how to create your own like , . So I looked it up, and it is very easy to create a basic CLI tool for yourself. CLI tools Vue-Cli create-react-app You can create a minimal one with just one configuration in your package.json. But I wanted a basic tool, with input from the user as well as multiple custom commands. So I came across and to do just that. inquirer-js commander-js We will create our magical command “ Cthulhu ”, and then we would “wake” him up. Below is the Inquirer, that takes user’s input to pass to the command. Here I’ve created inquirer in a , and the input prompts for the user are in . “prompt” function “ip” array Take input from the user Once we know what questions we are going to ask the user via inquirer, we define our custom commands. Here we create command to wake up our Cthulhu. “wake” Define your own commands Now the last and the most important steps: Convert your own commands to shell commands 1. We add to the top of the js file where we defined our command using commander-js.2. Add the following line to our package.json file. ‘ #!/usr/bin/env node ’ "bin": {"cthulhu" : "path to file in point 1"} 3. Run the following command to build the symlink: yarn link / npm link And that’s it! That’s all is needed to create your own command that might just wake up Cthulhu. Go ahead, give it a try. Run your own command as below: cthulhu wake 1200 uses the same pattern and defines the main command . Vue-CLI here vue here I am open to learning and looking for constructive feedback. If you liked the article, do provide feedback! P.S. Thanks to Ray Dalio’s Principles for providing background for my sticky notes. Next step is to learn to take better photos.
