n, i, nfo, nit, np, nip and nab. Fish shell aliases and functions for using npm and grabbing package names super quickly.

nfo-and-nab-example.txt

~/git > nfo ngnx-local                                                                                                                                                             Wed Jun 27 18:01:36 2018
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not found : ngnx-local
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'ngnx-local' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/mturley/.npm/_logs/2018-06-27T22_01_41_758Z-debug.log


 ! > ~/git > nab ngnx-local                                                                                                                                                 934ms  Wed Jun 27 18:01:41 2018
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help json` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg>` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
package name: (ngnx-local)
version: (1.0.0)
description:
entry point: (index.js)
test command:
git repository:
keywords:
author:
license: (ISC)
About to write to /Users/mturley/git/ngnx-local/package.json:

{
  "name": "ngnx-local",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}


Is this OK? (yes)
npm notice
npm notice 📦  [email protected]
npm notice === Tarball Contents ===
npm notice 206B package.json
npm notice === Tarball Details ===
npm notice name:          ngnx-local
npm notice version:       1.0.0
npm notice package size:  241 B
npm notice unpacked size: 206 B
npm notice shasum:        da57ed6f1e1c20c807eb12befbf936c351eedfd8
npm notice integrity:     sha512-0EWRhJUMD7ZDD[...]3rrdYpASo7MXw==
npm notice total files:   1
npm notice
+ [email protected]

why-do-i-do-this-stuff.fish

alias n='npm'
alias i='npm i'
alias nfo='npm info'
alias nit='npm init'
alias np='npm publish'
alias nip='nit; np'
function nab -d 'npm grab package' -a pkgname
    set -q pkgname[1]
    mkdir ~/git/$pkgname
    cd ~/git/$pkgname
    nip
end