stricli

Zero dependency CLIs with type safety.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Framework for building CLIs where commands are just functions. Type safe named flags and positional arguments using TypeScript. Helpers to build command routing & shell autocomplete. Good security defaults with isolated contexts - CLIs don’t need lots of runtime permissions. Works with CommonJS and ESM.

Tradeoffs

Writes directly to stdout (or stderr) which means logging is difficult to implement. Additional libraries are needed for more advanced output formatting.

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