📦 try
Quickly try out npm packages inside a container.
Purpose
As a developer working with NodeJS you often stumble upon packages you quickly want to try out. Installing these packages on your host system gets it polluted real quick.
try tries to keep your host system clean while testing out npm packages.
This CLI tool quickly starts up a Docker container
and installs your specified packages, so you can try them out!
Usage
You can print the usage by executing try --help.
Usage: try [options]
Quickly try out npm packages inside a container
Options:
-V, --version output the version number
-v, --verbose Verbosity value
-i, --image [image] The docker image which it should pull from (default: "node")
--image-version [version] Specify the node image version (default: "latest")
--no-cleanup If set to true, the created container will not get cleaned up
--silent If the program should not print any log statements
--ts If it the program should use TypeScript
-h, --help output usage information
Installation
Prerequisites
npm package
To install try using npm run:
npm install -g try-pkg
From source
To install it from source you need to clone this repository,
install the dependencies using npm and execute the program.
git clone https://github.com/BrunnerLivio/try.git
cd try
npm install
npm start
Other
Inspired by timofurrer/try - Thanks buddy :)