# Build CLIs with Node-RED
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/build-clis-with-node-red/95745
**Category:** General
**Created:** [1 March 2025 23:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/build-clis-with-node-red/95745 "2025-03-01T23:28:29Z")
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### Author:  [@AllanOricil](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/AllanOricil)
#### Post date: [1 March 2025 23:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/build-clis-with-node-red/95745/1 "2025-03-01T23:28:29Z")
I was able to successfully conduct an experiment to validate weather it is possible to build CLIs with Node-RED
> **[GitHub - AllanOricil/node-red-cli-builder-experiments: Build CLIs using Node-RED](https://github.com/AllanOricil/node-red-cli-builder-experiments)**
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> Build CLIs using 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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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [2 March 2025 08:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/build-clis-with-node-red/95745/2 "2025-03-02T08:30:36Z")
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](https://bun.sh/docs/bundler/executables) with the bun runtime included.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [31 May 2025 08:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/build-clis-with-node-red/95745/3 "2025-05-31T08:31:14Z")
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