Engine should be consumable by others

[jdx]

Currently cli-engine is just used to build the heroku-cli with the goal of one day having an open source platform for others to build similar CLIs. Some work needs to be done for this to happen, however:

• single-repo CLI (don't require a core plugin)
• document releasing custom CLIs
• write blog post on cli-engine
• write "joe dev" CLI example

[schickling]

Really looking forward to seeing this :)

[hemju]

Looking forward to it as well. Any predictions on the time frame?

[jdx]

actively working on it, hopefully will be out in the next few months

[danrasmuson]

Any updates on the release of this?

[jdx]

Yes! We still need to write up docs, but we renamed the project and you can build your own CLI by running npx oclif multI mynewcli

[zcei]

So the whole @cli-engine/* packages are already obsolete again? (Was trying out your work with the old cli-engine-'* Flow version as well as your new namespaced TypeScript version)

[jalcine]

Can't wait for these docs!

[jdx]

@zcei technically yes, but aside from the name changes the changes to the functionality are minimal from cli-engine/* to oclif/*

[jdx]

here is an example multi-command CLI in typescript: https://github.com/oclif/example-multi-ts

[zcei]

Awesome, will give it a shot tomorrow 👍

[jdx]

docs are up, still more work to do but I think we can close this out

https://github.com/oclif/oclif

[nsamsami]

@schickling @hemju @danielrasmuson @jalcine In case you missed it, the docs are up in the new repo for this project, which is now named Open CLI Framework (oclif): https://github.com/oclif/oclif/

I've also created a simple "getting started" guide here: https://salesforce.quip.com/kEgcAnqZMvck

Hope you get a chance to check it out! As we're just getting started with sharing this project more widely, would really appreciate any feedback you have or just to better understand your interest and the use cases. Feel free to create an issue directly in the oclif repo or to email us directly to say hi, at heroku-cli@salesforce.com