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Recommended libraries

We list here some usefull ibraries to use with scriptails.

Shell JS🔗#

ShellJS is a portable (Windows/Linux/OS X) implementation of Unix shell commands on top of the Node.js API. You can use it to eliminate your shell script's dependency on Unix while still keeping its familiar and powerful commands. You can also install it globally so you can run it from outside Node projects - say goodbye to those gnarly Bash scripts! https://www.npmjs.com/package/shelljs

Inquirer#

Inquirer.js strives to be an easily embeddable and beautiful command line interface for Node.js (and perhaps the "CLI Xanadu"). https://www.npmjs.com/package/inquirer

Chalk#

Terminal string styling done right Chalk comes with an easy to use composable API where you just chain and nest the styles you want.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk

Prompts#

Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive prompts

https://www.npmjs.com/package/prompts

Progress#

Flexible ascii progress bar.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/progress

Blessed#

A curses-like library with a high level terminal interface API for node.js.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/blessed

Finding more libs ?#

See more libraries listing in https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#command-line-utilities