Usability issues (behave like normal CLI applications please)

I’m submitting a feature request

The usability of the cli is really bad. Some extremly annoying behavior that is not common for cli-applications (at least not outside the Javascript world):

• Running au does a clear of the screen. Extremely annoying! You should not decide for the user to clear the screen.
• The help output is different depending on context. Very bad. For example, I have run into buggy scenarios where aurelia-cli does not recognize it is in an existing aurelia-project and gives “new” and “help” as the only options. All command line options should be shown when running help, it should not be context dependent. At least have a “full_help” command or something if it’s so important to hide things for the user.
• If I have au installed globally, and run it in a project directory, it fails to recognize it as a project??? I first have to run yarn and install it as a local dependency to get things to work. If there is some reason for this, at least a helpful error should be shown about this.
• The version is not displayed when running the cli. Which is normal for all command line tools pretty much.

[JeroenVinke]

I agree with everything except the context-aware help command. au new is only relevant when you’re not inside a project directory. It’s not useful to show au build outside of a project directory, or to show au jest as an option when your project is not setup for jest.

[avrahamcool]

maybe au help --full? the list will be pretty big, but maybe it can be braked down to section regarding the context in witch you can potentially run au? it’s a bit clunky…