dax

Cross-platform shell tools for Deno and Node.js inspired by zx.

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import $ from "dax";

// run a command
await $`echo 5`; // outputs: 5

// capture output
const branch = await $`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`.text();

// make a request
const data = await $.request("https://plugins.dprint.dev/info.json").json();

// prompt for input
const name = await $.prompt("What's your name?");

Differences with zx

1. Cross-platform shell.
2. Makes more code work on Windows.
3. Allows exporting the shell's environment to the current process.
4. Uses deno_task_shell's parser.
5. Has common commands built-in for better Windows support.
6. Minimal globals or global configuration.
7. Only a default instance of $, but it's not mandatory to use this.
8. No custom CLI.
9. Good for application code in addition to use as a shell script replacement.
10. Named after my cat.