minimist-options

Write options for minimist in a comfortable way. Support string, boolean, number and array options.

Installation

$ npm install --save minimist-options

Usage

const buildOptions = require('minimist-options');
const minimist = require('minimist');

const options = buildOptions({
	name: {
		type: 'string',
		alias: 'n',
		default: 'john'
	},

	force: {
		type: 'boolean',
		alias: ['f', 'o'],
		default: false
	},

	score: {
		type: 'number',
		alias: 's',
		default: 0
	},

	arr: {
		type: 'array',
		alias: 'a',
		default: []
	},

	published: 'boolean',

	// Special option for positional arguments (`_` in minimist)
	arguments: 'string'
});

const args = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), options);

instead of:

const minimist = require('minimist');

const options = {
	string: ['name', '_'],
	number: ['score'],
	array: ['arr'],
	boolean: ['force', 'published'],
	alias: {
		n: 'name',
		f: 'force',
		s: 'score',
		a: 'arr'
	},
	default: {
		name: 'john',
		f: false,
		score: 0,
		arr: []
	}
};

const args = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), options);

License

Current Tags

4.1.0 ... latest (5 years ago)

3 Versions

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4.0.2 ... 6 years ago
3.0.2 ... 8 years ago