CBF 🦥

CBF 🦥is a simple CLI tool for developers who can't be f#@!'d learning or remembering all the commands they have to run day to day or just in a specific repo.

Developers build scripts that can either be saved directly to CBF or loaded on the fly from a local cbf.yml file. The script will then serve as living, breathing runnable documentation for new starters, infrequent contributors or just developers who can't be f#@!'d learning or remembering all the commands.

Check out the wiki to get started!

Installation

npm i cbf -g

or

yarn global add cbf

Scripts

Simple scripts

CBF simple scripts can be stored as json or yaml files but must end with either .simple.json or .simple.yml so CBF knows to parse them differently than advanced scripts.

Simple scripts are made up of options and commands.

1. The first tag is required and is the scripts name
2. options are stored as keys
3. commands are stored as values

Note: If you would like to customise directories, messages or variables passed to each command please use advanced scripts.

Example simple yaml script

hello:
  world: "echo 'Hello, world!'"
  mars: "echo 'Hello, mars!'"
  jupiter: "echo 'Hello, jupiter!'"

Example simple json script

{
  "hello": {
    "world": "echo 'Hello, world!",
    "mars": "echo 'Hello, mars!",
    "jupiter": "echo 'Hello, jupiter!"
  }
}

You can fine more example simple scripts here.

Advanced scripts

CBF advanced scripts can be stored as json or yaml files. Advanced scripts are made up of options, command, variables, message and directory tags that are used to construct the layout of the script.

1. The first tag is required and is the scripts name
2. options tags are used to store lists of more options or command's
3. command tags are used to store one or many strings containing shell commands
4. variables tags are used to prompt the user for variables to be replaced in a command
5. message tags are used to store messages that are printed to stdout when an option or command is selected
6. directory tags are used to set where a command should be ran. When a command is ran, CBF recursively searches for the commands set directory or closest set parent directory tag

Example advanced yaml script

example-project:
  message: 'Run, build or test example project?'
  directory: '~/projects/example'
  options:
    run:
      message: 'Running example project...'
      command: 'yarn start'
    build:
      directory: '~/projects/example/src'
      message: 'Building example project...'
      command: 'yarn install'
    test:
      message: 'Run unit or integration tests?'
      options:
        unit:
          message: 'Running example project unit tests'
          command: 'yarn test:unit'
        integration:
          message: 'Running example project integration tests'
          command: 'yarn test:integration'

Example advanced json script

{
  "example-project": {
    "message": "Run, build or test example project?",
    "directory": "~/projects/example",
    "options": {
      "run": {
        "message": "Running example project...",
        "command": "yarn start"
      },
      "build": {
        "directory": "~/projects/example/src",
        "message": "Building example project...",
        "command": "yarn install"
      },
      "test": {
        "message": "Run unit or integration tests?",
        "options": {
          "unit": {
            "message": "Running example project unit tests",
            "command": "yarn test:unit"
          },
          "integration": {
            "message": "Running example project integration tests",
            "command": "yarn test:integration"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can fine more example advanced scripts here.

Local CBF file

Commit a cbf.yml to your repository so developers can run cbf or cbf -d to easily run and view commands related to the repository.

Package.json

Can't be f#@!'d writing a CBF script? Well guess what? You can just run cbf or cbf -d to easily run and view commands saved in the scripts section of your repos package.json file.

Note: If there is a local cbf.yml file it will always instead of a package.json file when just using cbf or cbf -d. However, you can manually choose to run the scripts from a package.json by running cbf -j or cbf -dj.

Additionally, you can filter out props by passing a comma separated list of property keys e.g.

cbf -j preinstall,postinstall

Usage

λ cbf -h

Usage: cbf [options]

cbf is a simple CLI tool for developers who can't be f#@!'d learning or remembering commands.

Go to https://github.com/joshuatvernon/cbf to learn how to make cbf scripts.

Options:
  -V, --version                       output the version number
  -D, --delete [script name]          delete a previously saved script
  -A, --delete-all                    delete all previously saved scripts
  -d, --documented                    prepends the command to the questions when running a script
  -R, --dry-run                       prints the command that would have been run to stdout
  -j, --json [comma separated props]  run scripts in a package json file
  -l, --list                          list previously saved scripts
  -N, --npm-alias                     set an alias that should be ran instead of npm when running scripts in a package json
  -p, --print [script name]           print a saved script
  -r, --run [script name]             run a previously saved script
  -s, --save <path to script file>    process and save a script from a yaml or json file
  -S, --shell                         set which shell commands should be run within
  -h, --help                          output usage information

Copyright

MIT