awesome-npx

🌟 packages and resources that work really well with https://github.com/zkat/npx 🕶

npx itself is awesome

npx lets you execute npm package binaries without installing them. npx is the last thing you need to globally install: > npm i -g npx (this command also updates npx)

Now you can execute tools from npm packages without having to install them globally:

> npx cowsay wow
npx: installed 1 in 1.413s
 _____
< wow >
 -----
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

you can even use npx to view this list of awesome-npx tools:

> npx awesome-npx

packages which work well with npx:

useful

alex - check text or markdown documents for insensitive or inconsiderate writing

npx alex README.md cat README.md | npx alex

ghub-cli - redirect to a npm package's GitHub page from your terminal

npx ghub-cli awesome-npx will bring you right back to this page :)

http-server - run a static web server in your current directory

npx http-server

shx - portable shell commands like ls, cp, rm

npx shx ls npx shx rm -rf /tmp

node.js development

npm-check - interactively update npm dependencies

npx npm-check npx npm-check --skip-unused --update

sort-package-json - sort your package.json keys!

npx sort-package-json

fun

benny-hill - plays benny-hill theme music while a command is running!

npx benny-hill npm test

cowsay - adds cow ascii art to your special message

npx cowsay <text>

figlet-cli - the classic multi-line ascii text generator, with font support

npx figlet-cli <text>

lolcatjs - colorful rainbow text from a file or stdin

echo hello | npx lolcatjs --animate npx lolcatjs /dev/urandom

workin-hard - a clone of hackertyper.com

npx workin-hard

articles and resources

• write one and we'll link it here!

etc

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md docs. Everything in this repo is licensed CC0-1.0 unless otherwise noted. Thank you for being awesome!