Multi-command

[rclark]

👋

From ur blog:

Supporting multiple commands as multiple functions

Curious how you'd think about structuring this? Something like this?

/**
 * top-level help here
 */
module.exports = {
  /**
   * one command's help
   */
  commandA: function(a, b, c) { ... },
  /**
   * another command's help
   */
  commandB: function(a, b, c) { ... }
}

Would this then support:

cli --help
cli commandA --help
cli commandB --help

Could the nesting go into deeper sub-commands?

[tmcw]

Hey Ryan!

Yeah! Within the current setup, it'd be a little more like

module.exports = zeroarg({
  /**
   * one command's help
   */
  commandA: function(a, b, c) { ... },
  /**
   * another command's help
   */
  commandB: function(a, b, c) { ... }
})

And zeroarg would know if the module was not the entry point and just be an identity function if not.

sub-sub commands... yes if supported by the backend, but afaik yargs doesn't support command nesting, and if commander does, I'm misreading the docs.

[rclark]

Am I correct that it is important that you bring a function to zeroarg, in order to take advantage of function.toString() as the documentation source?

That is, would it need to look like:

module.exports = zeroarg(function() {
  return {
    /**
     * one command's help
     */
    commandA: function(a, b, c) { ... },
    /**
     * another command's help
     */
    commandB: function(a, b, c) { ... }
  };
});

Maybe I just didn't quite understand this:

And zeroarg would know if the module was not the entry point and just be an identity function if not.

It does look like yargs has support for sub-command nesting, at least via the .commandDir() method. But I'm not sure that'll work for what's going on here.