Parse Aliases

I know that now to parse need use aliases package (related #24).

One of my projects consists of scripts (about a hundred) to run in Continuous Integration.

I have to add the same lines in each file.

const aliases = require('aliases');

meow(help, { alias: aliases(help, {h: 'help'}) });

I think that we can add parseAliases option to simplify API.

const help = `
    Usage
      $ unicorn <name>

    Options
      -r, --rainbow  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
      -m, --magic    Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor
`;

meow(help, { parseAliases: true });

I’d really like to have this feature by default.

We can parse aliases if alias option is not specified. It won’t break backward compatibility.

[sindresorhus]

I’ve come to the realization that it would be better to go the other way around. Generate CLI output from code definition. So closing this.

[blond]

Basic usability of the meow is that I can write help in human-readable format and do nothing more. Based on this philosophy need to parse not only arguments but also aliases.

I have invited several developers to use meow. Each of them asked me, “Why do we need to describe aliases twice?”.