Minimist2

Minimist2 is a rewrite of the popular Minimist Javascript library for argument parsing. The library aims to be a drop-in replacement with matching API footprint. It passes all original Minimist unit tests.

Minimist2 is written in TypeScript targetting ES6.

Installing

npm install minimist2

Development

1. Checkout the code

   git clone git@github.com:berdon/minimist2.git
   npm install

2. Develop
3. Run tests

   npm test

4. Submit a pull request

Using

var argv = require('minimist2')(process.argv.slice(2));
console.dir(argv);

$ node example/parse.js -a beep -b boop
{ _: [], a: 'beep', b: 'boop' }

$ node example/parse.js -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' }