10_basics.ts

/**
 * @title Getting started with Effect CLI modules
 *
 * Build a command-line app with typed arguments and flags, then wire subcommand
 * handlers into a single executable command.
 */
import { NodeRuntime, NodeServices } from "@effect/platform-node"
import { Console, Effect, Option, Schema } from "effect"
import { Argument, Command, Flag } from "effect/unstable/cli"

// You can define flags outside of commands and reuse them across multiple
// commands.
const workspace = Flag.string("workspace").pipe(
  Flag.withAlias("w"),
  Flag.withDescription("Workspace to operate on"),
  Flag.withDefault("personal")
)

// Start with a root command and explicitly share the parent flags that should
// be available to all subcommands.
const tasks = Command.make("tasks").pipe(
  Command.withSharedFlags({
    workspace,
    verbose: Flag.boolean("verbose").pipe(
      Flag.withAlias("v"),
      Flag.withDescription("Print diagnostic output"),
      Flag.withDefault(false)
    )
  }),
  Command.withDescription("Track and manage tasks")
)

// Arguments and flags parse plain strings; use `withSchema` to validate or
// transform the parsed value with any schema.
const Email = Schema.String.pipe(
  Schema.check(Schema.isPattern(/^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/, {
    message: "Expected a valid email address"
  }))
)

const create = Command.make(
  "create",
  {
    title: Argument.string("title").pipe(
      Argument.withDescription("Task title"),
      // Reject empty titles at parse time, so the handler only ever sees
      // valid input
      Argument.withSchema(Schema.NonEmptyString)
    ),
    priority: Flag.choice("priority", ["low", "normal", "high"]).pipe(
      Flag.withDescription("Priority for the new task"),
      Flag.withDefault("normal")
    ),
    assignee: Flag.string("assignee").pipe(
      Flag.withDescription("Email address of the person to assign"),
      Flag.withSchema(Email),
      Flag.optional
    )
  },
  Effect.fn(function*({ assignee, priority, title }) {
    // Subcommands can read parent command input by yielding the parent command.
    const root = yield* tasks

    if (root.verbose) {
      yield* Console.log(`workspace=${root.workspace} action=create`)
    }

    yield* Console.log(`Created "${title}" in ${root.workspace} with ${priority} priority`)

    if (Option.isSome(assignee)) {
      yield* Console.log(`Assigned to ${assignee.value}`)
    }
  })
).pipe(
  Command.withDescription("Create a task"),
  Command.withExamples([
    {
      command: "tasks create \"Ship 4.0\" --priority high",
      description: "Create a high-priority task"
    },
    {
      command: "tasks create \"Ship 4.0\" --assignee dev@acme.com",
      description: "Create a task assigned to a team member"
    }
  ])
)

const list = Command.make(
  "list",
  {
    status: Flag.choice("status", ["open", "done", "all"]).pipe(
      Flag.withDescription("Filter tasks by status"),
      Flag.withDefault("open")
    ),
    json: Flag.boolean("json").pipe(
      Flag.withDescription("Print machine-readable output"),
      Flag.withDefault(false)
    )
  },
  Effect.fn(function*({ status, json }) {
    const root = yield* tasks
    const items = [
      { title: "Ship 4.0", status: "open" },
      { title: "Update onboarding guide", status: "done" }
    ] as const
    const filtered = status === "all"
      ? items
      : items.filter((item) => item.status === status)

    if (root.verbose) {
      yield* Console.log(`workspace=${root.workspace} action=list`)
    }

    if (json) {
      yield* Console.log(JSON.stringify(
        {
          workspace: root.workspace,
          status,
          items: filtered
        },
        null,
        2
      ))
      return
    }

    yield* Console.log(`Listing ${status} tasks in ${root.workspace}`)
    if (filtered.length === 0) {
      yield* Console.log("- No tasks found")
      return
    }

    for (const item of filtered) {
      yield* Console.log(`- ${item.title}`)
    }
  })
).pipe(
  Command.withDescription("List tasks"),
  Command.withAlias("ls"),
  Command.withExamples([
    {
      command: "tasks --workspace team-a list --status open",
      description: "List open tasks in a specific workspace"
    },
    {
      command: "tasks --workspace team-b ls --status open",
      description: "List open tasks in another workspace"
    }
  ])
)

// Finally, compose the subcommands into a single command and then run it.
tasks.pipe(
  Command.withSubcommands([create, list]),
  Command.run({
    version: "1.0.0"
  }),
  // Provide the services for the platform you are targeting. In this case,
  // Node.js
  Effect.provide(NodeServices.layer),
  NodeRuntime.runMain
)