yargs/yargs-parser

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:muscle: the mighty option parser used by yargs

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Indexed issues: 38
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Dominant language: JavaScript
License: ISC
Last GitHub push: Sep 4, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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38 open issues indexed

Consider adopting npm trusted publishing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#518 · Opened Sep 28, 2025
Multiple arguments are incremented if they are equal to 1. Open

bug

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yargs/yargs-parser#506 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Incorrect parsing of options with escaped quotes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#484 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2023
`negation-prefix` does not work with `short-option-groups` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

yargs/yargs-parser#468 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 11, 2023
array w/ default breaks requiresArg Open

bug p2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

yargs/yargs-parser#445 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 28, 2022
Repeated config arguments results in a confusing error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

yargs/yargs-parser#430 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 19, 2022
Default value of `false` doesn't work for `narg: { flag: 0 }` Open

bug p2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

yargs/yargs-parser#418 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2021
Existence of ‘number’ Key in `Options.arrays` Changes Parsing Open

bug p2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#415 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2021
Migrating an option value from boolean to choices requires breaking changes Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

yargs/yargs-parser#412 · Opened Sep 12, 2021
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

yargs/yargs-parser#410 · Opened Aug 30, 2021
Alias single letter to negated boolean option Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#406 · Opened Jul 12, 2021
greedy arrays seems not work Open

question

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yargs/yargs-parser#393 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 15, 2021
String values in config files that contain embedded quotes are not handled correctly Open

bug

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yargs/yargs-parser#385 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2021
Single dash passed as positional arg disappears Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#381 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2021
`boolean-negation` + `unknown-options-as-args` strange behaviour Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#376 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2021
Strange implicit camel-case conversion when use both unknown-options-as-args and alias Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#359 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 6, 2021
Nested environment variables are being lowercased (regression?) Open

bug

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yargs/yargs-parser#356 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 22, 2021
maybeCoerceNumber bombs if coerce produced an object without toString Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

yargs/yargs-parser#352 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2021
use with angular/typescript Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

yargs/yargs-parser#351 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 7, 2021
Using an equal sign with short/alias options and an empty string Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#367 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2021
Using an equal sign (or not) with an array option changes the value Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

yargs/yargs-parser#368 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2021
coerce and 'number' typed options Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#347 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2021
Convert ANSI-C quoted strings to their value Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#346 · 13 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 24, 2020
Invalid parsing of quoted arguments Open

bug

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yargs/yargs-parser#344 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2020
Create parser builder pipeline. Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

yargs/yargs-parser#302 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2020
Hopefully ending any and all discussion about how to handle quotes.... Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

yargs/yargs-parser#300 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2020
yargs-parser 'strip-dashed' option is incompatible with yargs option names Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

yargs/yargs-parser#273 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2020
nargs-eats-options doesn't work with array options Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#254 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 3, 2020
dot-notation doesn't respect strip-dashed Open

bug dot-notation p2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#223 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 26, 2019
default value and config type do not work in conjunction Open

bug p2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

yargs/yargs-parser#218 · Opened Nov 10, 2019
Empty array values being ignored Open

bug needs investigation p1

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#193 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2019
Unable to combine count with environment variables Open

needs investigation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

yargs/yargs-parser#192 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2019
Quotes not consumed Open

bug

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yargs/yargs-parser#180 · 13 comments · 8 reactions · Opened May 24, 2019
`populate--` should return empty array if no options found Open

feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#161 · Opened Feb 15, 2019
Incorrect `default` type should not be allowed Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

yargs/yargs-parser#143 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2018
Setting an argument to both array and number gives unexpected results Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

yargs/yargs-parser#135 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 27, 2018
Optional choices for array Open

feature triaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

yargs/yargs-parser#220 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2016
Specifying both `count` and `boolean` should throw error Open

feature help wanted

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yargs/yargs-parser#216 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 30, 2015

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