Difference between revisions of "Desktop scripting/node"

Latest revision as of 17:03, 2 September 2020

Everyone knows that node is a server environment, but it's also GREAT for desktop scripting!

you can write a node script, give it the proper bin bindings, install it globally, and that command is now installed on your system's shell.

I'll eventually cover how to make:

For now though, I invite you to look at an interactive CLI that I've built and use frequently: https://www.npmjs.com/package/run-interactive

I didn't do anything so terribly clever that you can't figure out what i did.

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 Everyone knows that node is a server environment, but it's also GREAT for desktop scripting!
-you can write a node script, give it the proper bin bindings, install it globally, and that command is now installed on your systems shell
+you can write a node script, give it the proper bin bindings, install it globally, and that command is now installed on your system's shell.
+I'll eventually cover how to make:
+* simple shell commands
+* shell commands that take arguments
+* interactive CLIs (interactive command line interfaces)
+For now though, I invite you to look at an interactive CLI that I've built and use frequently:  https://www.npmjs.com/package/run-interactive
+I didn't do anything so terribly clever that you can't figure out what i did.