I like it

[mikkelking]

I like the look of this, and am about to start building a REPL for my app with it.

I see bandersnatch was inspired by vorpal, which now seems to be abandoned. You appear to have added features, like options. Any more background info available on your motivation and a possible roadmap?

I think I will use it in an interactive way, so for example I will provide commands to

• select an object (and display info about the selected object)
• do an operation on that object (and display a summary of the operation)
• confirm the operation with a "go" command

This appears to be quite feasible to do. I may have some questions or feature requests along the way.

[hongaar]

Hi @mikkelking, appreciate the feedback! I started writing this library after porting vorpal to TypeScript and realising the codebase was a mess. Some of that work and discussions can be found here: https://github.com/vorpaljs-reforged/vorpal/.

What you're describing should be possible with bandersnatch. If there's anything I can help you with or clarify about this library, let me know here! And would be interested to hear about any features you find missing from this package.

[kevinkhill]

Hiya, I just found your library too and I also like it 😃 I just started, but I think it will be a good fit.

If you want to start a "used in" listing, then its in here

[jq170727]

Just adding a note to say I've started using this for interactive testing. I also tried vorpal for a bit but really wanted something simpler and more Typescript focused so I kept searching and eventually came across this module. There are a few rough spots but so far it's working very well for me. Thank you for creating this!

It would be nice if .save and .load behave as in the Node.js repl. I haven't dug into it too deep yet but from what I can discern bandersnatch is mediating between yargs, enquirer and part of the Node.js repl so I suspect getting .save/load working correctly could be easy or hard depending on what those packages apis let you do. I might try and fix this on my own if I can figure out how everything works.