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What Makes a Good CLI?

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In this chapter, you’ll take a look at successful command-line clients and what they do well. This will help you understand the problems users face, and thus help you build better command-line clients with Node.js later in the book.

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Kowalski, R. (2017). What Makes a Good CLI?. In: The CLI Book. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3177-7_1

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