🚀 Feature Proposal: Update Notification for Global Installs

🚀 Feature Proposal

Many users out there install CLIs globally but the issue with this approach is these users don’t get any notification when a new update for the CLI is available. This can be fixed using update-check package developed by Vercel. I read the code of fastify-cli and found that you folks have also not implemented this feature. (I might be wrong. In that case, just close the issue).

I can send a PR your way with the feature implemented. Let me know.

Motivation

To help developers work with the latest version of the CLI even if they have installed it globally.

Example

When the CLI is about to exit, a block code will run that notifies the user with a message to update the CLI if an update is available.

[MSE99]

You can use this small wrapper function around command handlers in cli.js.

cli.js itself is a executable. No need to wrap each handler and IIFE. Just place the checking before all commist.register.

It’s a cleaner way of doing things, checking for updates will mean accessing the network (it has to be done asynchronously) some command handlers schedule async tasks too, it’s better if fastify-cli checks for an update and prints a notification first then proceeds with whatever else it had to do.

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