Node.js: Custom command line interface

Question

I'm very newbie in this thing. I would like to create a command line interface for my application where I can specify custom commands something like these:

myapp new /root/myapp
myapp start /server.js
myapp stop /server.js

So i can interact with my application just like I do with a real service like mysql. Is it possible to write such a service like thing inside node.js?

What I'm looking for something similar to forever or meteor in terms of working with them.

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

You need to specify myapp in package.json like so:

{ "name": "myapp"
, "version": "0.0.1"
, "engines": [ "node >=0.4.0" ]
, "description": "myapp command line util."
, "author": "..."
, "contributors": []
, "keywords" : [ "myapp", "command", "shell" ]
, "repository":
  { "type" : "git"
  , "url" : "https://...."
  }
, "bin" : { "myapp" : "./bin/myapp.js" }
}

http://howtonode.org/how-to-module

Answer 2

You can use commander module from npm for building your own CLI. Simply enter:

npm install commander 

This will install commander module.

For examples and documentation, you can go through this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander