Terminal tips tweets

A while ago I started a thread on Twitter with a few terminal tips. There are lots of CLIs in NPM and they can be very handy in our daily work. Here they are and if you like them, follow me :)

1. list-scripts and npm-list-scripts give you a list of available npm script including what each script does. Useful for documentation:

💻 npm i -g list-scripts npm-list-scripts
🌎 https://t.co/QvvFEpEMeQ https://t.co/6MFQXbHPLW#terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/84dwGqVviX

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

2. ncu checks the packages in your package.json file and gives you major and minor package updates info

💻 npm i -g npm-check-updates
🌎 https://t.co/H9NIGetGKy#terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/EPmx3YKJwE

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

3. npm-scripts-tree is helpful when you have scripts calling other scripts and you are lost trying to understand the dependencies between them. Really handy for documentation:

💻 npm i -g npm-scripts-tree
🌎 https://t.co/4NVKocfDuY#terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/7NWn2FBPBK

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

4. space-hogs shows large directories - imagine a better du:

💻 npm i -g space-hogs
🌎 https://t.co/xPlGzYjLJk#terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/HKZQP9NMgq

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

5. see is an improved cat (aka syntax highlight)

💻 npm i -g see-cli
🌎 https://t.co/bEAjBJjhGt#terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/o6rx8MZbel

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

6. colorls is a ruby script that changes the ls output with color and icons

💻 gem install colorls
🌎 https://t.co/9F3n6v3FnA#terminal #ruby #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/NF675JfdPx

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

7. You can use repeat in zsh and the speed-test cli from @sindresorhus to keep monitoring your internet speed

💻 repeat 10000 { date +"%T"; speed-test; sleep 1 }
🌎 https://t.co/BP4Rj4qI5r pic.twitter.com/22j1YV6Kf1

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 30, 2019

8. You can configure git to push to the current branch:

git config --global push.default current

So instead of:
git push origin your-feature-branch
You can just do:
git push #protip #terminal #git

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) February 8, 2019

9. Writing a PR? Maybe you want a list of your commits:

git log origin/master..HEAD --no-merges --pretty=format:'- %s' --reverse#protip #terminal #git @github pic.twitter.com/od8e8LPpPa

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) October 5, 2019

10. Running out of space? Maybe too many node_modules folders:

💻 npx npkill
🌎 https://t.co/zyj9s6eCj9

Saved 10GB+ here ~ #terminal #npm #cli #protip pic.twitter.com/y31i7gS9af

— @leonardo@indieweb.social (@leozera) January 9, 2020