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Comment by chetangoti | Hacker News Reader

This is good, enabling people with Javascript proficiency write complex scripts IMO.

There is also https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs which is implemented on top of nodejs APIs.

I pretty much got rid of my bash scripts and just replaced them using shelljs. Makes it a lot easier and quicker to maintain, it means any developer can jump in fix it and add to it.

If you like shelljs, then check out https://bashojs.org (mine).

  # Example, list all dev dependencies:
  cat package.json | basho --json 'Object.keys(x.devDependencies)'

I think use case of shelljs and this zx is more for developers who need to perform file system and subprocess operations but rather stay away from bash or other footgun-ridden shells and instead write things in safe code with access to richer data types and more libraries.

bashojs seem to start in the other end, add js statement-execution to shells and and yet another pipeline-language in the mix. More like AWK with js-syntax.

Looks good as a "jq" on steroids but i wouldn't compare it to shelljs.

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