create-react-native-library --tools inconveniences

[Johennes]

Description

0.55.0 added --tools which introduces a few inconveniences:

1. --tools eagerly consumes all further arguments that don't start with -. Notably you cannot put the library name at the end of the command anymore:

$ npx create-react-native-library@latest [...] --tools eslint mylib
Unzulässige Werte:
  Argument: tools, Gegeben: "mylib", Möglichkeiten: "eslint", "lefthook", "release-it", "jest"

2. I couldn't find a way to select no tools without setting --local true. I might not want any of these tools despite creating a non-local library though.

3. The addition of --tools is a breaking change as it is required and has no default value. It would be helpful if this could be called out in the release notes or through semantic versioning.

Packages

• create-react-native-library
• react-native-builder-bob

Selected options

See above

Link to repro

Environment

[satya164]

Hey @Johennes, I'm working on a refactor that will allow specifying --tools= without any values to say that you don't want to configure any tools.

The --tools eslint jest format is an artifact of the yargs library - but after the refactor yargs is no longer used, so it won't treat positionals as the value of the argument, but require --tools eslint --tools jest to specify multiple tools.

As the CLI is still 0.x, breaking changes can still happen due to semver, but I'll try to document CLI related changes in the changelog.

[Johennes]

This sounds excellent, thank you. 👍