Ghost/core/cli/README.md

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# CLI Commands
## Writing new commands
Commands are classes which extend the base `Command` class (see [`command.js`](command.js)).
The only required override is the `handle()` method, which defines the logic for the command:
```javascript
const Command = require('./command');
module.exports = class REPL extends Command {
async handle(argv = {}) {
// this is where your logic is implemented
}
};
```
### Arguments
Optionally, you can override the `setup()` method, where you can define any command-line arguments and help text etc:
```javascript
setup() {
this.help('A brief explanation of what your command does, shown when the --help flag is used');
// arguments are passed to sywac - see https://sywac.io/docs/
this.argument('--color', {type: 'string', defaultValue: 'yellow'});
}
```
Arguments specified in `setup()` are accessed from the `argv` object passed to the `handle()` method:
```javascript
async handle(argv = {}) {
this.log(`Your color is ${argv.color}`);
}
```
### Output
You can write console output using a number of helper methods:
```javascript
this.log('Writes a line to the console');
```
Available helpers are `log`, `ok`, `info`, `error`, `fatal`, `warn`, and `debug`.
### Interactive input
**Confirm an action** with:
```javascript
const confirm = await this.confirm('Are you sure you want to continue?');
if (!confirm) {
// ...
}
```
**Ask for user input** with:
```javascript
const fruit = await this.ask('Favorite fruit?');
this.info(`You answered: ${fruit}`);
```
**Get masked input** with:
```javascript
const password = await this.secret('Password:');
this.log(`Your password is: ${password}`);
```
### Progress bars
You can show a progress bar to e.g. display progress through a long-running task.
`this.progressBar()` returns an instance of a [cli-progress](https://github.com/npkgz/cli-progress) progress bar. You can add a status to the output by calling `.update({status: 'Your status message'})`, and the progress bar can be advanced by `.increment()`:
```javascript
const progressBar = this.progressBar(listOfTasks.length);
for (const task in listOfTasks) {
progressBar.update({status: `Running ${task.name}`});
await task.run();
progressBar.increment();
}
```
## Registering commands
New commands need to be registered in `ghost.js` before they can be called.
Commands are called by passing them to `command.run()` either as a class definition, or as the name of the file to be required in the `core/cli` directory.
`command.run()` is a static method on the Command class that handles instantiating the command, resolving arguments, and calling the `handle` method. You can instantiate and call a command outside of this structure, but you'll need to resolve/provide the arguments (`argv` object) manually.