Awesome Vorpal

A curated list of delightful Vorpal-based projects and extensions.

Vorpal is Node's first framework for building immersive CLI applications.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Community
• Tutorials
• Projects
• Extensions
• Contribute
• License

Community

• Chat
• Stack Overflow
• Wiki

Tutorials

• [By Brian Rinaldi] (http://developer.telerik.com/featured/creating-node-js-command-line-utilities-improve-workflow/)

  An excellent introduction to Vorpal, Brian Rinaldi from Telerik walks you through developing a sophisticated Vorpal app from scratch.

• By Ramon Gebben

  A brief introduction to Vorpal by the author of daily-javascript.com.

Projects

Awesome projects and applications built using Vorpal.

• Cash - Cross-platform Linux commands without the suck.
• Raptor - Performance testing CLI for Firefox developers.
• iTunes-remote - Control iTunes on the CLI.
• phunt - Access Product Hunt on the CLI. Trended on (you guessed it) Product Hunt.
• trelew - Access Trello on the CLI.
• wat - Community-built docs for every language, platform and library.
• metronome - A live metronome on the CLI.
• fastack - A zero-config tool that makes developing client-side apps easy.
• cbcluster - CLI for Couchbase Server Clusters.
• quotr - View stock exchange quotes.
• Vantage - CLI + SSH + REPL for your live Node app.
• birdknife - A full featured Twitter CLI.
• tv-remote-cli - CLI for remotely controlling your Smart TV.
• launch - Automating meteor builds to the AppStore, TestFlight, Hockey, Google Play, and more
• lifxsh - Interactive shell for controlling LIFX smart lights.

Extensions

Extensions add to the functionality of Vorpal - programmatically or live.

POSIX implementations

• less - Implementation of the less command.
• grep - Implementation of the grep command.

Development tools

• repl - Drops your CLI into a REPL within your app's context.
• tour - Build an interactive tour for your Vorpal app.
• watch - Updates your live Vorpal extensions in realtime.
• log - Advanced logging utility.
• set-or-print - Easily set / get arguments with commands.

Realtime

• use - Import Vorpal extensions live: while your app is running.

Fun

• hacker-news - Pulls the top trending items from Hacker News.

Toolbox

• rc - Simple .rc file support.
• comment - Bash-like comment support.
• as-default - Triggers Vorpal task in case it runs without any specificly defined task.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, David Caccavella has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.