append-er

NodeJS based CLI application to read from a provided file and combine its information with data from an API and output a new file.

Pre-requisites

Tool	Version
Node	>= 10 < 11
NPM	>= 6

Setting Up

• Run npm install from the project directory to update the dependencies
• Once dependencies are installed, run npm link from the project directory. This will link a new CLI command in your enviornment appndr. Linking will allow you to run the CLI app from your Terminal and from any directory

Running

• Run appndr from any location in your Terminal

Usage: appndr [options] [command]

Options: -v, --version output the version number -h, --help
display help for command

Commands:

commands	description
config	configure environment
parse	parse a file for processing
help [command]	display help for command

Setting up environment config

• Run appndr config --init to set up a new environment. Environment config are stored as a JSON file in $HOME/.config/configstore
• Run appndr config --reset to reset the configuration data. If no configuration is found when running the appndr parse command, it will default to Development config.

Reading a file and outputting another

• Run appndr parse --in $HOME/input.csv --out $HOME/output.csv to read a CSV file. The CLI app only support CSV files a the moment. When a file that is not a csv file for passed in the --in or --out options, it will out Error: File type is not supported