A typescript cli template powered by typescript, prettier, zx, esbuild, and pkg

Replace the following templated variables globally:

YOUR_NAME (author's name)
YOUR_EMAIL (author's email)
GITHUB_USERNAME (github username)
smol-cli (package name)
smol--cli (package name)

I needed a lightweight approach that had all the tools I preferred using that resulted in smol binaries that worked across all major platforms.

• Is this the best way to develop a CLI in javascript? Doubtful.
• Is it usable? By my standards sure.
• Is the output small? No... its smol 😉.

Install the dreaded 💀 node_modules 💀 with your package manager of choice:

npm i

1. Run the watch script to create a minified CommonJS bundle at dist/out.cjs (using esbuild) and update it when changes are made to any files in ./src/**/*.

2. There is no testing framework (yet) so to test it run node ./dist/out.cjs.

3. zx utils can be used to run shell commands, get options and arguments, and access common utils (path, fs, fetch, cd, echo, etc).

4. src/utils.ts includes a couple functions for normalizing shorthand argument names and showing a formatted help message.

pkg is used to create binaries for all major platforms. The package script will create binaries for windows, macos, and linux from the ./dist/out.cjs bundle.