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Simple yet powerful framework for building command-line apps.
Last release 6 months ago
27 Feb 2026
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 weeks to 3.5 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 60 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
11 years old
122 releases · first in 2016
allow cli.outputHelp to output help message for matched sub-command
don't prepend bin to command example
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## 6.0.1 (2018-11-25) ### Bug Fixes * use tsc directly
Many breaking changes, so it's a new major release. But you don't need to upgrade to v6 if it's unnecessary for you :P
Many breaking changes, so it's a new major release. But you don't need to upgrade to v6 if it's unnecessary for you :P
i.e. it works like commander.js now:
const cli = require('cac')()
cli.command('build <entry> [...more]')
.option('--target [target]', 'Build target', { default: 'web' })
.action((entry, more, options) => {
console.log(entry, more, options)
})
cli.parse()
node cli.js build --minimize
# equals to
node cli.js --minimize build
13kB in total, compiled file is about 400 SLOC, only one single tiny dependency.
Check out README
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