Kapsis — Build delightful & intuitive command line interfaces with Nim language 👑

nimble install kapsis

API reference

😍 Key Features

• Typed arguments and validation (path, string, int, bool, float, seconds and more)
• Prompters input, dropdown, secret, checkbox, radio
• Commands and Sub commands
• Label separators
• Index Auto alignment
• Doc comments

Example

  import commands/cli

  commands:
    -- "Source-to-Source"
    src string(-s), path(`timl`), bool(--pretty):
      ## Transpile `timl` code to a specific target source
    
    ast path(`timl`), filename(`output`):
      ## Generate binary AST from a `timl` file

Command handles

Kapsis autolinks CLI commands to their command handles. For example, a command called src autolinks to a command handle srcCommand

import kapsis/[app, cli]

proc srcCommand*(v: Values) =
  displayInfo("Hello")

proc astCommand*(v: Values) =
  discard

-h, --help, -v and --version are reserved flags.

Database

todo

Plugins

todo let others add more commands to your kapsis app via shared libraries.

TODO

• Fancy Gradientful preloaders
• Fullscreen Session & Keyboard Events
• Auto-generate Bash/Zsh completion scripts
• Pluggable Commands via Shared Libraries
• Built-in database using either JSON or SQLite

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🎩 License

MIT license. Made by Humans from OpenPeeps.
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