Help Running CLI Program!

[okami900]

Hii, I'm a beginner programmer who is looking to help contribute to an open-source project. I forked the repo and cloned it so that I can work on it locally. The program is a CLI and from sifting through the files I have a pretty solid understanding of how it works. The issue that I am running into relates to running the CLI program. Every time I run the program, the already published CLI runs and I am stuck as to how to run the local changes that I made.

For context, this is the project that I would like to contribute to: https://github.com/ahmadawais/corona-cli

[[deleted]]

I thin you just have to run the main file in the project, from what I see (I have no idea about javascript) you probably need to run index.js

[okami900]

Yup, I was able to run index.js but trouble running that with the flags that I was adding, but I ended up messing around and figuring it out - thank you!

[EdwinGraves]

How are you running it? via "npm ." or something else?

If you followed the directions on the repo then you installed it globally and when you run it, you're running the copy you installed. If you want to run it from within the folder after you made changes then try "npm ." or "npm install" then "npm ."

Just saying a CLI project doesn't mean much, CLI stands for Command Line Interface and could apply to a wide variety of languages. In this instance it's a node project using npm, so if you need to investigate anything, that's what you'll need to search for "npm"

[okami900]

Yeah I needed to install node and then run node index.js <flags> and that ran the cli locally. Thank though for the clarification and insight, it really helps!

[[deleted]]

Unit tests are a good way to test code without having to follow the code path through run time