Included Types

string

A simple string => string type. Useful for option and positional arguments

boolean

A simple boolean => boolean type. Useful for flag

number

A string => number type. Checks that the input is indeed a number or fails with a descriptive error message.

optional(type)

Takes a type and makes it nullable by providing a default value of undefined

array(type)

Takes a type and turns it into an array of type, useful for multioption and multiflag.

union([types])

Tries to decode the types provided until it succeeds, or throws all the errors combined. There's an optional configuration to this function:

• combineErrors: function that takes a list of strings (the error messages) and returns a string which is the combined error message. The default value for it is to join with a newline: xs => xs.join("\n").

oneOf(["string1", "string2", ...])

Takes a closed set of string values to decode from. An exact enum.