Command Lines Scripts in JavaScript (or any language!)

[@BrunoReisVideo]

I love how you explain things so clearly it makes your content basically language agnostic. I have no understanding of javascript but I could totally do this in python 🥰

[@Guergeiro]

It's really powerful to just use a tool you're comfortable with to do cli scripts. I sometimes find myself losing my hair over some bash weird stuff and that's the trigger to move to either JS or Python.

[@lvgsredarmy8776]

If you’re a fan of Deno, you can do this too by putting “#! /usr/bin/env -S deno run -A” as your shebang! The “-A” tells deno to execute the file with all permissions allowed, so if you want to get granular and only grant it env var permissions, you could do “deno run -allow-env” instead. I personally prefer this to node as then I can utilize Typescript for free and write typescript scripts instead of Javascript. Thanks for showing me this idea Andrew, it really sparked my curiosity on how i could more efficiently use my shell as a primarily JS/TS dev who knows only enough bash to get by 😄

[@JeremyKolassa]

Huh, I never thought of this. Thanks for this!

[@gosnooky]

I normally do this in Python (it's actually the ONLY thing I use Python for). I omit the extension and save to the bin directory in ~. That way it looks like any ordinary executable.

[@benjaminschultz6501]

You just blew my mind. I'm gonna try that!

[@postedactive]

Be nice to know a person like Andrew, I'd just be asking them to explain to me what they working on 😂😂... cool stuff

[@andrew-burgess]

Feel free to hit me up on twitter or email if there are topics you'd like to see videos on!

[@postedactive]

@@andrew-burgess I certainly will, big ups on all the great content and explainers 👍

[@offroaders123]

Thanks for making this! I've been planning on looking into doing this with one of my own npm packages 📦 Also, I was wondering if using CommonJS is required for CLI Node scripts? I would like to use ESM natively instead if that's possible.

[@eland-io]

I'd really love to see you do more videos on bash and the commandline's core functionality. Your teaching style is easy to follow and consume.

[@lukem121]

You think you can cover some cool react libraries? Just discovered react email and it looks cool. I feel like there are so many libraries that I would find useful but I don't know they exist

[@EmilRaeven]

One thing that I have never understood is where to store secrets used by an custom CLI application. Like you have an login function in it but where should it store the temporary token.

[@echobucket]

Store the token in an environment variable. Or give it to the use and ask them to store it in an environment variable, then the user can use the `pass` command to store their secrets and populate the variable.

[@Fullflexno]

Perfect!

[@mk72v2oq]

"If you are a programmer, you can write programs" 🙈

[@andrew-burgess]

Lol, fair. But I think there was a point for all of us when we said, "I didn't know I could do THAT!" Those have been my favourite moments of being a programmer.