CLI ?

[Semigradsky]

Running using npm script would be very convenient

[tolemac]

It will be nice to have.

[tolemac]

I'm not sure how to implement it ...

I can think of two ways:

1. To add code to index.ts inspect process.argv searching parameters ...
2. To add new module, ie: cli.ts that import and use bundle function from index.ts...

@basarat can you tell me about?

I not sure how to determine if a module is running directly with nodejs or included from other ...

[basarat]

I not sure how to determine if a module is running directly with nodejs or included from other

With examples :

Developer (you)

• To allow running as a node script a module provides bin in package.json : https://github.com/alm-tools/alm/blob/master/package.json#L7 pointing to a js file which can then safely assume that it is being run as an executable.
• Ideally the script should have shebang : #! /usr/bin/env node https://github.com/alm-tools/alm/blob/master/bin/alm

User

• To use such a file they can either do npm install -g alm. This gives them the executables from the package.json bin on the user system command line
• They can install it as a dev dependency and use scripts option in package.json to drive it e.g. :

"scripts": {
    "build": "alm -p ./src"
},

:rose:

[tolemac]

Done.