libraries

CLI Libraries Reference

Philosophy: "It's for me mostly, so I like awesome"

Since we're using Bun anyway, let's make this CLI absolutely delightful to use.

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Installed Libraries

Core UI/UX

• chalk - Terminal colors and styling
• ora - Elegant terminal spinners
• listr2 - Multi-step task lists with progress
• boxen - Beautiful boxes around text
• cli-table3 - Terminal tables
• enquirer - Interactive prompts

Framework & Utilities

• commander - CLI framework and arg parsing
• pino - Structured logging (JSON + pretty)
• update-notifier - Update notifications
• omelette - Shell completion (bash/zsh/fish)
• cosmiconfig - Configuration file loader
• zod - TypeScript schema validation

Optional

• figlet - ASCII art text
• cli-progress - Progress bars

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Quick Examples

Colored Output

import chalk from 'chalk';
console.log(chalk.green('✓ Success!'));

Spinner

import ora from 'ora';
const spinner = ora('Deploying...').start();
await deploy();
spinner.succeed('Deployed!');

Task List

import { Listr } from 'listr2';
const tasks = new Listr([
  { title: 'Build', task: async () => await build() },
  { title: 'Deploy', task: async () => await deploy() }
]);
await tasks.run();

Success Box

import boxen from 'boxen';
console.log(boxen('Deploy Successful!', {
  padding: 1,
  borderColor: 'green'
}));

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Security Notes

All libraries are:

• ✅ Actively maintained
• ✅ Millions of downloads per week
• ✅ Trusted maintainers
• ✅ Minimal dependencies

Before updating: Always run bun pm audit and check package reputation.