open-cli-tools / open-cli-tools/concurrently
Switch from yargs to commander to remove 16 dependencies
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Description
Description: switching from yargs to commander would reduce dependencies. commander has 0, yargs has 16
Every downstream dependency adds work as all of them need updates and all of them may have vulnerabilities. Lowering dependencies is generally a win.
If there's nothing special about yargs, would it be ok to provide a PR to remove it and replace with commander?
note: commander is more popular than yargs. Not that popularity has anything to do with quality, only that lots of people are relying on it.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue does not name files or tests. Start by locating the current yargs integration and its dependency declaration, then review how command-line options are parsed and tested. Done means replacing yargs with commander while preserving the CLI behavior and reducing the dependency count.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100