Build Awesome CLI with Node.js

A full-featured framework for building Command Line Applications with Node.js

Easy to use

Clean documented API to write simple or complex programs in Javascript or Typescript.

Build mono-command programs as well as multi-commands program like git.

Uses the chalk package to bring colors and joy to your programs.

Validate arguments and options using ready to use flags or bring you own.

Supercharge your programs with built-in shell autocompletion in bash, zsh and fish.

Integrates with inquirer to power up users interactions & UI

Harder. Better. Stronger. Battle tested with more than 200 unit tests.

Let users know about their mistakes and suggest them some solutions.

Beautiful yet customizable help auto generated for you.

More than 360 packages are using Caporal for their CLI, among which:

es-checkopen in new window: Checks the EcamScript version of .js glob against a specified version of EcamScript with a shell command.
eslint-generate-todoopen in new window: Tool for generating eslint todo files.
balanceofsatoshisopen in new window: Lightning balance CLI.
icon-font-buildropen in new window: Build custom icon fonts, it supports remote and local icons sources.
node-appletv-xopen in new window: A Node.js library for communicating with an Apple TV.
handelopen in new window: Orchestrates your AWS deployments so you don't have to.
mume-cliopen in new window: markdown toolkit powered by mume.
@fabiospampinato/bumpopen in new window: Bump updates the project's version, updates/creates the changelog, makes the bump commit, tags the bump commit and makes the release to GitHub. Opinionated but configurable.
project-snippetsopen in new window: Keep code snippets directly in your project repository and let anyone create files easily and quickly.
node-appletvopen in new window: A Node.js library for communicating with an Apple TV.
citc-cliopen in new window: Develop React projects with ease.
@nodebrick/nodebrick-cliopen in new window: Nodebrick Command-Line Interface (CLI).

Thanks goes to these wonderful people for contributing to Caporal: