Carbon Now CLI: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Your Development Workflow

Welcome to our guide on carbon-now-cli – an impressive tool to create beautiful code snippets easily. This CLI tool leverages the power of Carbon to create stunning visuals of your code, which can be used to enhance your blog posts, documentation, or social media content. In this guide, we will dive deep into the carbon-now-cli and provide you with numerous API examples to get the most out of this tool.

Getting Started

First, you need to install the carbon-now-cli package. You can do this by running:

  npm install -g carbon-now-cli

Basic Usage

Creating a carbon image is straightforward. Navigate to the directory of the file you want to create a snippet for and run:

  carbon-now your-file.js

Specifying Output Directory

You can specify the output directory using the --output or -o flag:

  carbon-now your-file.js --output ./snippets

Language Overrides

Override the language detection by using the --language or -l flag:

  carbon-now your-file.js --language python

Themes

Select a specific theme using the --theme or -t flag:

  carbon-now your-file.js --theme dracula

Using API in an Application

Here is an example of a simple application that utilizes carbon-now-cli to generate code snippets:

  
const { exec } = require('child_process');
function createCodeSnippet(filePath, options) {
  let cmd = `carbon-now ${filePath}`;
  if(options.output) {
    cmd += ` --output ${options.output}`;
  }
  if(options.language) {
    cmd += ` --language ${options.language}`;
  }
  if(options.theme) {
    cmd += ` --theme ${options.theme}`;
  }

  exec(cmd, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
    if (err) {
      console.error('Error creating snippet:', err);
      return;
    }
    console.log('Snippet created successfully:', stdout);
  });
}
// Example usage const options = {
  output: './snippets',
  language: 'javascript',
  theme: 'dracula'
};
createCodeSnippet('example.js', options);
  

With these commands and script, you can integrate carbon-now-cli into your development workflow and create beautiful code snippets programmatically.

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