Code Review: Google’s zx (write better shell scripts)

Welcome to another exciting installment of Code Review, where we review some open source code, together!

Today we’re delving into a new project from Google called zx. The aim of the project is to make it easier to write shell scripts with node.

It’s a small library with a clear API which provides a ton of value. It uses tagged templates to drive a lot of its power which is a fun advanced JavaScript feature.

Watch now!

0:00 Intro
0:23 What does it do
4:58 How it works
16:26 Outro

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[pieter-cs]

Great review Harry! Keep up these kind of videos!

[kalvinpearce]

Awesome video and a cool tool! definitely seems like a handy middle ground for when you have scripts that are too complex and annoying to write in bash but not quite worth the hassle of node.
One quick mention, for you future Code Review vids, you might want to check out github1s. Its basically vscode in browser so it makes it crazy quick abd easy to read code in a repo online

[relatakera]

Super useful tool, thanks for the heads up.

[johnradley]

Great review, thanks. I'd love you to do a review of ts-node and Deno as an alternative to writing scripts in typrscript

[Dygear]

What camera are you using for this video. I know you use a green screen, but damn you pop off the background and everything looks so crispy!