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oclif Summer 2020 Update

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Hello oclif developers! We hope you are all doing well.

Earlier this year, we started our planning for oclifconf v2 and, like all conference, had to change course. We opted not to hold a virtual conference, however, we wanted to take some time to highlight a few oclif features shipped this year.

Feature: Help templating​

One of the most requested features, help templating enables oclif developers to customize the help output for their CLI.

Read the announcement.

Feature: Custom error delegation​

This feature both improved how oclif throws and handles errors and allows oclif developers to overwrite or interject in oclif’s error handling.

Read the announcement.

Feature: postrun hooks​

We have added a new lifecycle event postrun. Your CLI can now run a hook after a command has ran.

See our hook documentation.

Feature: Root index command​

Previously, oclif would display CLI help if only the binary name with no command ID was invoked, oclif now supports a "root index" command. If present, a command defined at src/commands/index.ts will be run if no command ID is found.

1 million weekly downloads​

While exact oclif usage metrics are hard to pin down, we use npm download statistics of oclif packages as a rough approximation. Earlier this year, oclif's command package hit 1 million weekly downloads for the first time!

This year has been presented its challenges on everyone. We want to thank you, oclif developers, whom have taken the time to use and improve the oclif project. We look forward to seeing you all - in person - in the future!

All our best,

The oclif team