🐚 cross-platform library to execute commands in a new shells

> When you have many cli apps that takes the whole terminal, it's useful to run them all with a single command

Features

- 👯‍♂️ Attempts to use the current terminal
- 🌏 Cross-platform
- 📄 Runs js files with node
- 🗃 Opens the new shell in current working directory
- 🎛 Supports spliting with iterm2

CLI

#### Run a command in a new shell

> prints "hello world" in a new shell window

``sh
newshell "echo 'hello world'"
`

> The new shell will run in the same working directory.

`sh


See for yourself 👀

newshell pwd
`

> You can run multiple shells

`sh
newshell "npx tsc --watch" "npx jest --watch"
`

$3

`sh
newshell --file "./script.sh"
`

> Supports running node for javascript files

`sh
newshell --file "./script.js"
`

Node API

$3

> has the same capabilities of the cli

`ts
command(script: string, options: Options): void
`

`ts
type Options = {
env?: Record = {};
split?: boolean = false;
splitDirection?: string = "verticaly";
terminalApp?: string | undefined = $TERM_PROGRAM;
};
`

$3

> similar to --file

`ts
file(scriptPath: string): void
`

Future

- Run npm scripts in a new terminal (and resolve bins from the node_modules/.bin directory)
- Controll the focus of the terminal window
- Pass environment parameters from the CLI
- Manage IPC with the other terminal window (similar to child_process.fork`)