Noob

Hey,

I’m new to CLI’s and how to use node to create them. I stumbled upon this repo and I read the features that meow provides and I really want to use it. Looking at the README.md I’m not exactly sure where to start or how to use meow.

I tried the example and I get the correct output but I’m a bit confused as to how this would be used to provide messages based on input to the CLI and how to act on input to the CLI.

I’m a noob when it comes to this and if I asked a dumb question above I’m sorry. Just want to be pointed in a better direction to understand how this all works and what role it plays when building a CLI.

🙂

[sindresorhus]

I’ve been planning to write a blog post about it, but I’m too busy at the moment. This project was really just to make it easier for me to write a lot of CLI apps. I haven’t really done much to promote it or make it easy to use for beginners. I’ll keep this issue open to remind me to improve the docs.

You could look at some of my CLI’s to see how it’s used in practise:

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/pkg-dir-cli/blob/master/cli.js
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/sparkly-cli/blob/master/cli.js
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/latest-version-cli/blob/master/cli.js

Basically, cli.input gives you all the CLI positional arguments as an array. cli.flags gives you the flags, like --foo=bar.

[kennetpostigo]

@sindresorhus are you still planning on writing the blog post?