WARNING Not actively supported! Please, consider switching to some other lib.

WARNING npm package args was used for this project only for versions <= 0.0.3. Ownership then have been transferred to reuse args npm package name for other arguments parsing library.

args

args is command line arguments parser for node.js

Instead of trying to deal with all your complex cases, args provides a tool to help you with arguments parsing.

features

Supported syntax for options: --option=value, --option value, -abc, -abc value

For boolean flags, true value can be omitted, i.g. -f true can be replaced with -f (and --flag true with --flag also).

option properties

• name
• shortName
• key
• type
  • no value - str
  • enum
  • bool
  • int
  • float
  • date
  • datetime
• isList
• enumItems
• enumHelp
• required
• defaultValue
• help

usage example

var args = require('args');

var options = args.Options.parse([
	{
		name: 'option',
		shortName: 'o',
		type: 'int',
		help: 'some option'
	}
]);

console.log(options.getHelp()); // shows help

var argv = 'node app.js --option 11'.split(' ');
var parsed = args.parser(argv).parse(options);
console.log(parsed); // {option: 11}

License

MIT