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# zeroarg




disappearing argument parser

This is admittedly a little :microscope: mad science. The gist is that zeroarg
is an argument parser, with [yargs](https://github.com/yargs/yargs) at its
core, that doesn't require you to touch yargs, or argument-parsing specifics.
It aims to infer types and reuse documentation to do that.

Here's an example CLI written with zeroarg:

```js
var zeroarg = require('zeroarg');

zeroarg(() =>
/**
* Add numbers together
* @param {Array} numbers
*/
function add(numbers) {
console.log(numbers.reduce((sum, num) => sum + num, 0));
}
);
```

This produces proper help material:

```js
Commands:
run [numbers..]

Options:
--help Show help [boolean]

Add numbers together
```

And adds numbers together when you run it:

```js
$ ./examples/add.js run 1 2 3 4
10
```

## Why?

- Argument parsing still feels like a source of uncertainty in programming: it's like
the same as parsing query arguments, except for the CLI: you're getting who knows what
from who knows who. Your program has types and expectations - maybe even official types
with Flowtype - and yet argument parsers make you redeclare those types, or even
allow untyped, unexpected input. What if argument parsers leveraged your program's
existing assumptions and treated CLIs more like functions?
- It's possibly a little less code to write, and one less API to learn! zeroarg's
API surface is one function, and it uses existing standards (JSDoc & Flow)
to express assumptions about argument types.
- It's super fun and weird.

# API

## zeroarg

zeroarg a code-free argument parser

Functions that you provide to zeroarg follow certain rules:

Their arguments work like:

[positionalArgument],
[positionalArgument2],
[variadicPositionalArgument],
[optionsArgument]

- The first arguments can be positional arguments.
- The last argument to the method can be an object that receives the
flag arguments (like --option). Only the last argument can be an options
object.
- Options can have JSDoc types of string, number, array, and boolean.
- If you specify a default in JSDoc-land, it becomes a default in yargs
- If you specify an argument as an enum in JSDoc-land, it becomes choices in yargs

**Parameters**

- `fn` **[Function](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/function)** a function that returns a function, and has at least
one JSDoc comment preceding that function.

**Examples**

```javascript
zeroarg(() =>
/**
* Hello world
*\/
function helloworld() {
console.log('Hello world');
}
);
```