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minimist

minimist

parse argument options

51.6M
22
DefinitelyTyped
MIT
com

commander

node.js command-line interfaces made easy

106M
24K
Built-in
MIT
yargs

yargs

yargs the modern, pirate-themed successor to optimist.

77.5M
10.1K
DefinitelyTyped
MIT
cla

command-line-args

A mature, feature-complete library to parse command-line options.

1.3M
608
DefinitelyTyped
MIT
argparse

argparse

CLI arguments parser for node.js. JS port of python's argparse module.

54.7M
460
DefinitelyTyped
Python-2.0
mri

mri

Quickly scan for CLI flags and arguments

6.9M
480
Built-in
MIT
res

respond

An interactive & asynchronous CLI/CMD interface based on node-suppose (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-suppose)

595
6
No support
MIT
sc

shipit-captain

Run Shipit tasks from Gulp, or any task runner. Includes Inquirer.js prompts, CLI arguments, customized logging, and more.

32
23
No support
MIT
@run-z/optionz

@run-z/optionz

Run-z command line options parser

920
2
Built-in
MIT
cli-argparse

cli-argparse

Lightweight argument parser

454
6
No support
MIT
cr

cli_router

A router for parsing command line flags and arguments in your Node CLI scripts.

4
9
No support
BSD
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