洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hollo.social
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I've recently been working on Optique, a CLI parser combinator for TypeScript. Optique allows you to describe complex CLIs by combining smaller parts. You can also handle the CLI parsing results in a type-safe manner (see code below). The idea came from Haskell's optparse-applicative, but since TypeScript's API style is so different from Haskell's, I referenced Zod and similar libraries for the API design. For a more detailed introduction, please refer to the article I posted on Hackers' Pub!

const parser = or( object({ type: constant("network"), host: option( "-h", "--host", string({ metavar: "HOST" }), ), port: option( "-p", "--port", integer({ metavar: "PORT", min: 0, max: 65535 }), ), }), object({ type: constant("local"), file: option( "-s", "--socket-file", string({ metavar: "FILE" }), ), }), ) type Result = InferValue<typeof parser>; // The above type is inferred as: type Result = { readonly type: "network"; readonly host: string; readonly port: number; } | { readonly type: "local"; readonly file: string; }
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