🤖 @phantasm0009/commit-buddy

A CLI tool that helps developers write standardized, expressive commit messages following the Conventional Commits specification.

✨ Features

• 📚 Interactive prompts for commit message creation
• 🎨 Emoji support for visual commit types
• 🔧 Configurable via .commit-buddy.json
• 📦 Conventional Commits compliant
• 🚀 Non-interactive mode for automation
• 🛠️ Git integration ready
• 📋 Easy-to-use CLI interface

🚀 Installation

Global Installation

npm install -g @phantasm0009/commit-buddy

Use without installation

npx @phantasm0009/commit-buddy

🎯 Usage

Interactive Mode

commit-buddy

This will prompt you through an interactive flow:

? Select commit type: (Use arrow keys)
  feat     ✨  A new feature
  fix      🐛  A bug fix
  docs     📝  Documentation changes
  style    🎨  Code style updates
  refactor ♻️  Refactoring
  test     ✅  Tests
  chore    🔧  Misc tasks

? Scope (optional): auth
? Short message: add login error handling
? Longer description (optional): Improved error display for invalid login attempts.
? Is this a breaking change? No

Non-Interactive Mode

commit-buddy -t feat -s auth -m "add login logic" -d "Implements JWT and error flow"

Command Line Options

• -t, --type <type>: Commit type (feat, fix, docs, etc.)
• -s, --scope <scope>: Commit scope (optional)
• -m, --message <message>: Commit message
• -d, --description <description>: Longer description (optional)
• -b, --breaking: Mark as breaking change
• --dry-run: Show what would be committed without actually committing

For more detailed usage instructions, see USAGE.md.

• --dry-run: Show the commit command without executing it
• --config <path>: Use custom config file

⚙️ Configuration

Create a .commit-buddy.json file in your project root or home directory:

{
  "types": {
    "feat": "✨",
    "fix": "🐛",
    "docs": "📝",
    "style": "🎨",
    "refactor": "♻️",
    "test": "✅",
    "chore": "🔧",
    "perf": "⚡",
    "ci": "👷",
    "build": "📦",
    "revert": "⏪"
  },
  "scopes": ["auth", "ui", "api", "core"],
  "allowEmptyScope": true,
  "maxMessageLength": 72
}

🎨 Commit Types

Type	Emoji	Description
feat	✨	A new feature
fix	🐛	A bug fix
docs	📝	Documentation changes
style	🎨	Code style updates
refactor	♻️	Code refactoring
test	✅	Tests
chore	🔧	Maintenance tasks
perf	⚡	Performance improvements
ci	👷	CI/CD changes
build	📦	Build system changes
revert	⏪	Revert changes

📋 Examples

# Interactive mode
commit-buddy

# Quick commit
commit-buddy -t feat -m "add user authentication"

# With scope and description
commit-buddy -t fix -s auth -m "resolve login timeout" -d "Fixed session timeout issue that occurred after 5 minutes of inactivity"

# Breaking change
commit-buddy -t feat -s api -m "update user endpoint" -b

# Dry run (see what would be committed)
commit-buddy -t docs -m "update README" --dry-run

🛠️ Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Phantasm0009/commit-buddy.git
cd commit-buddy

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Test the CLI
npm start

📝 License

MIT © Phantasm0009

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📞 Support

If you have any questions or need help, please open an issue.