features

Feature overview

switchit is more than a wrapper for your command.
This document contains a list of all the features it provides.

• Base architecture
  • Object oriented command definition
  • Promise-based command dispatching
• Switches and command line arguments
  • Positional argument processing
  • Command line switch processing
  • Required and optional parameters
  • Variadic switches and parameters
  • Switchy parameters
  • --no prefix for switches
  • Shortest unique prefix matching
  • Custom single-character alias
  • Shorthand syntax
    • Minimal
    • With specific type
    • Optional
    • Variadic
    • Switchy
    • Custom character alias
    • Confirmable
  • Private switches
• Type system
  • Built-in types
  • Custom type definition
• Interactive mode
  • Configuring interactive mode
  • Deactivating interactive mode
  • Confirmable switches and parameters
• Commands and sub-commands
  • Command containers
  • Shortest unique prefix
  • Sub-command aliases
  • Default sub-command
  • Command chaining
  • Private commands
• Built-in commands
  • Help command
    • Including the help command
  • Version command
    • Including the version command
• Response file processing
  • Complex command processing
  • Nested file processing
  • Escaping the @ symbol
• Miscelaneous, other
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