Usage

Tony provides a Command Line Interface to compile and run your programs.

Commands

The following section describes available commands. If you need more information on a given command or want to lookup available options, run tony command -h.

shell

Not implemented yet

tony [...projects]

Start a shell session.

Arguments

• projects - a list of projects to initiallize the shell session with

init

Not implemented yet

tony init [project]

Initializes a new project within a new directory and installs required dependencies. If project is not given, you will be prompted for a name.

Arguments

• project - name of the project to be created

run

tony run [project] [args...]

First compiles and then executes a project. If project is not given, the main project file according to the name of the current directory is used.

Arguments

• project - name of the project to be created
• args - supplied arguments at runtime

compile

tony compile [project]

Compiles a project to JavaScripts. If project is not given, the main project file according to the name of the current directory is used.

Arguments

• project - name of the project to be created

exec

tony exec <file> [...args]

Executes a JavaScript source. This command can be used to execute a project that was first compiled with the compile command.

Arguments

• file - name of the file to be executed
• args - supplied arguments at runtime

parse

tony parse <file>

Runs the Tree-sitter parser to build an abstract syntax tree of a program.

Arguments

• file - name of the file to be parsed

Hot code recompilation

You can use nodemon to automatically compile to JavaScript as you write your program in Tony. Then you only need to run the exec command, to see your code in action.