sindresorhus / clear-cli

Clear the terminal cross-platform

clear-cli

Clear the terminal cross-platform

Install

npm install --global clear-cli

Usage

$ clear --help

  Usage
    $ clear

clear-cli's Issues

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@sindresorhus

perhaps a few too many dependencies?

Your library literally only needs to send the ANSI CSI 2 J command to a raw filestream, but you've written it to achieve this using 540000 bytes of dependency code =)

As an improvement, may I suggest removing all those dependencies and simply writing the ANSI string needed:

let clearCode = '\033[2J';
if (process.platform === "win32") {
  clearCode = '\033c';
}
process.stdout.write(clearCode);

This removes the need for over half a megabyte of dependencies just to clear the screen, and is even cross-platform (because of course windows needs a different code, why wouldn't it...)

And as the only argument that clear takes is --help, it seems unnecessary to have arg parsing, but since the only response is literally the instruction to just use clear, no need for a big parser dependency chain either:

if (process.argv.indexOf('--help') > -1) {
  return console.log("Usage: clear\n");
}
...above code here...