Mystery is a tool to generate mystery ingredients for your next project. It was inspired by the Food Network show Chopped, since in the show, contestants have to prepare a dish that incorporates a basket of mystery ingredients.
To get mystery installed quickly, run this:
curl -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asilvr/mystery/main/install.sh -o install.sh > /dev/null 2>&1; chmod +x install.sh; sudo ./install.sh;
Or, you can download the latest version of the mystery CLI tool in the
releases section. The tool is
built for most common operating systems and CPU architectures. Don't see yours?
Create an issue and we can add it!
Using Mystery is simple. Just run the mystery program in your terminal.
Here's an example:
$ mystery generate
Voila! Your mystery ingredients have been generated! You'll be making a project
in the Go language with the following ingredients:
- Mind Blown (https://github.com/mind/blown): A package that randomly inserts
the 🤯 emoji into your project's output.
- Another One (https://github.com/another/one): A package that simply prints
out the phrase 'another one' like DJ Khaled.
- Cool Project (https://github.com/cool/project): A package to make cool things
happen!
Use this snippet if you want to import it:
import (
"github.com/mind/blown"
"github.com/another/one"
"github.com/cool/project"
)
Good luck on your mystery project!
After you get your ingredients, the rest of the creativity is all up to you. We recommend that you try to read into each of the tools, and brainstorm what kind of project, big or small, you can make with it.
If you want to do more custom usage, check out the help menu:
$ mystery --help
NAME:
mystery - generate mystery ingredients for your next project
USAGE:
mystery [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by the Food Network show Chopped, mystery provides you with mystery
ingredients to help kickstart your new or existing project.
AUTHOR:
Alex Silver <alexaaronsilver@gmail.com>
COMMANDS:
generate generate mystery ingredients in a sample code snippet
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--language value supported values: random, go, swift (default: random)
--difficulty value supported values: random, beginner, intermediate,
advanced (default: random)
--imports value supported values: all, native, external (default: all)
--help, -h show help (default: false)
The project currently supports the following languages:
- Go (https://golang.org)
- Kotlin (https://kotlinlang.org)
- Swift (https://swift.org)
With more coming soon!
Check out the CONTRIBUTING for ways you can help improve mystery.
The tool is currently v0 and can be used reliably, however, until it is v1,
the commands, flags, arguments and behavior are subject to change. As such,
please provide any bugs or behavior feedback as issues in the project so that
it can be useful for everyone!
As the project evolves, here's some future features that might come about. If you have a feature, please create an issue for it:
- Ability to save ingredients for future reference
- Ability to generate a skeleton package
- Ability to generate a boilerplate project
- Something cooler? Shoot it our way!
Eventually, I would like to make mystery not just a CLI, but a monthly “mystery challenge” generator. I’d like to make a website and a Twitter where the community can all try to make their best project out of the same mystery ingredients (kind of like the show Chopped!) Stay tuned for this!