All You Need For The First CLI App

What is a CLI?

CLI stands for COMMAND LINE INTERFACE . As the name suggests, it is used for interacting using some commands. Simply, it is a way of interaction with the user and browser without any graphics i.e majorly in plain text

Anything you do consists of mainly three things :

• Input
• Processing
• Output

The same you need to remember while building your FIRST CLI APP.

Before we jump to code, go check out the Basic Terminology that would be used.

LET'S BEGIN , BY MAKING A DO YOU KNOW ME QUIZ !!!!

Let's make the app on the online IDE . I am using REPL.it . Make your account and create a new REPL(language Node.js / javascript).

As we learned three things are a must , INPUT , PROCESSING AND OUTPUT .

For INPUT , we will be using readline-sync and for making our CLI app a little colorful we will be using chalk .

In case , if you are not using REPL.IT or any other online IDE , begin with Step 1 . Rest can start with Step 2 as online IDE will automatically install the packages as you use them

Step 1 : To Install the packages :-

• npm install readline-sync
• npm install chalk

Step 2 : To tell your app that we need the packages and we are going to use them .

const readLineSync = require('readline-sync');
const chalk = require('chalk');

Step 3 : Now we need to know the person's name who is playing the game , because w address people with their names.

const userName = readLineSync.question(
                                 chalk.cyanBright("What's your good name?")
                                 );
// chalk.cyanBright represents the color in which it will be visible.

Step 4 : We need an array to store all the questions and their correct answers. I am using one of the types in readline-sync i.e the user can I/P answer only in a yes(y) or no(n). You can choose whatever you would like to , as per your choice from the docs.

Also initialise the score to 0;

var score = 0;
var questionListOne =[{
question:"She lives in Delhi.",
answer:false
},
{
question:"She has a younger brother.",
answer:true
},
{
question:"She has watched 'FRIENDS'.",
answer:false
},
{question:"She loves Pizza over Burger.",
answer:true},
{
question:"She does'nt know cooking,",
answer:true
}
]

Step 5 : Now I need to map the questions , so I will be needing a for-loop. But in the loop I need to check whether the answer matches to what user has input , if it does , increase the score by 1 , and if it does'nt decrease the score by 1 or make no changes in the score.

function checkAns(ques,correctAns)
{
  var userAns = readLineSync.keyInYNStrict(chalk.bold.yellowBright(ques));
  if(userAns == correctAns)
  {
    console.log(chalk.greenBright(userName +" , Correct Answer"));
    score = score + 1;
     console.log(chalk.greenBright("Score = "+ score));
  }
  else
  {
    console.log(chalk.redBright(userName +" , Wrong Answer score remains same"));
  }
}

for(var i =0;i<questionListOne.length;i++)
{
  currQues =questionListOne[i]
  console.log(); // to give a empty line
  checkAns(currQues.question,currQues.answer)
}

Step 6 : Now comes the final step , that is to show the user his/her final score.

console.log(chalk.bgYellow("\nTHE QUIZ ENDED !! FINAL SCORE IS :" + score + " "));

## HERE YOU GO , YOUR FIRST CLI APP IS COMPLETE

If you still find any difficulty or want to checkout my version of "DO YOU KNOW ME". Checkout the link ( Click Here ) and make your version of it .

CHALLENGE : ADD LEVELS TO YOUR CLI APP . IF THE PERSON SCORES SUPPOSE 50% OR MORE THEN ONLY ALLOW HIM TO PLAY IN THE NEXT LEVEL .