parseargs

Command line arguments parser for Deno based on minimist

Example

import { args } from "deno";
import parseArgs from "https://github.com/bartlomieju/parseargs/index.ts";

console.dir(parseArgs(args));

$ deno example.ts -a beep -b boop
{ _: [], a: 'beep', b: 'boop' }

$ node example.ts -x 3 -y 4 -n5 -abc --beep=boop foo bar baz
{ _: [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' ],
  x: 3,
  y: 4,
  n: 5,
  a: true,
  b: true,
  c: true,
  beep: 'boop' }

API

const parsedArgs = parseArgs(args, options = {});

parsedArgs._ contains all the arguments that didn’t have an option associated with them.

Numeric-looking arguments will be returned as numbers unless options.string or options.boolean is set for that argument name.

Any arguments after '--' will not be parsed and will end up in parsedArgs._.

options can be:

options.string - a string or array of strings argument names to always treat as strings
options.boolean - a boolean, string or array of strings to always treat as booleans. if true will treat all double hyphenated arguments without equal signs as boolean (e.g. affects --foo, not -f or --foo=bar)
options.alias - an object mapping string names to strings or arrays of string argument names to use as aliases
options.default - an object mapping string argument names to default values
options.stopEarly - when true, populate parsedArgs._ with everything after the first non-option
options['--'] - when true, populate parsedArgs._ with everything before the -- and parsedArgs['--'] with everything after the --. Here’s an example:
options.unknown - a function which is invoked with a command line parameter not defined in the options configuration object. If the function returns false, the unknown option is not added to parsedArgs.

Contributing

Feel free to open PRs with suggestions.

License

MIT