#Optique 1.0.0 is out! If you build #CLI tools with #TypeScript, it might be worth a look.
I started it because I wanted a TypeScript CLI parser that felt more like optparse-applicative than the usual builder-style APIs. You build up small typed parsers, compose them, and TypeScript infers the result. It handles subcommands, option dependencies, shell completion, and man pages, and it runs on #Deno, #Node.js, and #Bun.
For 1.0 I added @optique/env, so env vars can fill in missing flags, and @optique/inquirer, so missing values can fall back to Inquirer.js prompts. I also cleaned up a lot of awkward API edges and fixed a long backlog of completion bugs across five shells.
Packages are on JSR and npm.
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Optique 1.0.0: environment variables, interactive prompts, and 1.0 API cleanup · dahlia/optique · Discussion #796
Optique is a type-safe combinatorial CLI parser for TypeScript, inspired by Haskell's optparse-applicative and TypeScript's Zod. It takes a functional approach: you compose small, typed parsers int...