feat(help): refactor npm help/help-search #2859
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These all now should match the descriptions in the docs for all the commands, which means we are one step away from being able to programmatically generate everything before the longhand "Description" sections of those docs.
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| constructor (npm) { | ||
| this.npm = npm | ||
| const BaseCommand = require('./base-command.js') | ||
| class Docs extends BaseCommand { |
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I added a test to test/lib/load-all-commands.js that caught this bug. Yay.
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| /* istanbul ignore next - see test/lib/load-all-commands.js */ | ||
| get usage () { | ||
| return usageUtil('docs', 'npm docs [<pkgname> [<pkgname> ...]]') | ||
| static get usage () { |
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I added a test to test/lib/load-all-commands.js that caught this bug. Yay.
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| async helpSearch (args) { | |||
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| return this.npm.output(this.usage) | |||
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Now that this isn't pulling triple duty it can just work like everything else and return usage on no params
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| const formatted = this.formatResults(args, results) | ||
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| npmUsage(this.npm, false) | ||
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| this.npm.output(`No matches in help for: ${args.join(' ')}\n`) |
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Now that this isn't the usage output for the cli itself we can act in isolation and not have to return usage here.
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The old method would treat the number in the args as a suggestion, there is no need to search everywhere if we are explicitly asking for a given man number. This was the source of most of the streamlining here.
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Lots of dead code removed thanks to streamlining of logic.
npm helpnpm <command>andnpm help-searchare all now separatedconcerns, handling their own use cases.
helpcallshelp-searchas alast resort, but
npm <command>no longer tries to wind its way throughto
help-searchjust to get the basic npm usage displayed.The
did you meanoutput has been expanded. It now always suggests toplevel commands, scripts, and bins, and suggests them in the way they
should be called.
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Closes npm/statusboard#277