Current project status

[Daniel Ruf]

Hi, what is the current status of this project?

[Miles Johnson]

@DanielRuf It's a bit dead atm. There's a few community members working on upgrades/forks, but not so much in the main repo.

[Joram van den Boezem]

To date, I have not been able to find a real alternative. https://github.com/oclif/oclif looks pretty interesting but it lacks the interactive prompt.

Are there any active forks/branches? Would love to get involved, however not sure where to start...

[Miles Johnson]

@hongaar I mostly use oclif and yargs these days, but they are more just basic CLIs.

I believe @ore444 is working on a fork. #328

[Joram van den Boezem]

Quick update: there's an effort over at https://github.com/vorpaljs-reforged to reforge vorpal by first porting it to TypeScript, update dependencies and maybe fix some bugs in the process.

There's also a Slack community for further discussion about this, feel free to join!

[Laurent Cozic]

I use terminal-kit these days, which works very well and is actively maintained.

[Joram van den Boezem]

⚠ Shameless plug warning

I've created a new project based on the Vorpal API in TypeScript which offers much of the same functionality: https://github.com/hongaar/bandersnatch.

Let me know if you have any feedback or features you are missing!

[Daniel Ruf]

Let me know if you have any feedback or features you are missing!

Don't forget to invite additional contributors and move it to some org to increase the bus-factor and that more people can maintain it ;-)