Build CLIs with Node-RED

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I was able to successfully conduct an experiment to validate weather it is possible to build CLIs with Node-RED

I made a cli that shows a progress bar while it is fetching an API N times, and at the end it outputs a json array with all the responses it fetched. Then I pipe the result to jq to get the message of the first element of the array.

Do you think building CLIs visually makes sense?

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as node-red is ultra flexible, I think this can have its use cases. I have been wondering about such a use-case and then using bun iso nodejs, it can compile .js/.ts into cross-platform binaries with the bun runtime included.