Package Health Score

67 / 100

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popularity
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maintenance
Sustainable
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Active

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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
2.30.7	\|	02/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.29.2	\|	04/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.27.0	\|	04/2022	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
1.7.23	\|	02/2020		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
0.7.0	\|	06/2017		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

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Apache-2.0

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Popularity

Small

Weekly Downloads (2,341)

GitHub Stars: 167
Forks: 55
Contributors: 30

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package ask-cli receives a total of 2,341 downloads a week. As such, we scored ask-cli popularity level to be Small.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package ask-cli, we found that it has been starred 167 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 30
Funding: No

With more than 10 contributors for the ask-cli repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 24
Open PR: 6
Last Release: 10 months ago
Last Commit: 9 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of ask-cli based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that ask-cli demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 12 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=14

Age: 7 years
Dependencies: 38 Direct
Versions: 135
Install Size: 778 kB
Dist-tags: 1
# of Files: 170
Maintainers: 2
TS Typings: No

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Readme

Alexa Skills Kit Command Line interface

The Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ask-cli) is used to create, manage, and deploy Alexa skills from the command line. Please see the full documentation from ASK CLI quick start guide.

Note: To use ask-cli for Alexa-Hosted skill, please check our instructions for the usage.

Getting Started

1. Install CLI

$ npm install -g ask-cli

2. Configure CLI profile

Before you can start using the ASK CLI, configure your ASK (and AWS) credentials:

$ ask configure

You’ll be prompted to sign into your Amazon developer account. If you choose to have your skill hosted by AWS, you’ll have the option of linking your AWS account as well.

3. Create new skill project

Create a new skill project and follow the prompts from the command:

$ ask new

You'll be asked to select a deployment method for your skill. Currently we support deployment via AWS CloudFormation (@ask-cli/cfn-deployer), deployment via AWS Lambda (@ask-cli/lambda-deployer), and deployment through Alexa-Hosted skill (@ask-cli/hosted-skill-deployer).

Your new skill project will provide a number of files and folders that make up the structure of an Alexa skill. Here is an overview on each of the files and folders that are created by default:

File/Folder	Description
skill-package/	Skill resources utilized by the ASK platform such as skill manifest, interaction models, and assets
lambda/	Contains the source code for your skill that utilizes the ASK SDK
infrastructure/	Contains your CloudFormation definitions for deploying your skill to AWS
ask-resources config	Configuration for your Alexa skill project

See the ASK SDKs documentation to learn more about how to build an Alexa skill.

4. Deploy Alexa skill

In order for Alexa to communicate with your skill code, it will need to be deployed and hosted on the cloud using this command.

$ ask deploy

The deploy command performs the following steps:

skill-package/ resources will be zipped and uploaded to the ASK platform via SMAPI's Skill Package Service.
lambda/ source files will be built and zipped for deployment to AWS. We currently support the build flows of npm for Nodejs, pip for Python and maven for Java developers.
infrastructure/ definitions will be used to provision resources on AWS. The lambda/'s zip file from the previous step will be deployed to the provisioned AWS Lambda function. The gif below shows the deployment using @ask-cli/cfn-deployer, you can also try other deployers as they serve different purposes.

5. Dialog with what you build

To test while developing your skill locally, or quickly showcase your skill ideas, or even build end-to-end testing, you can use CLI's dialog command.

$ ask dialog

FAQs

What is ask-cli?

Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Command Line Interfaces. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for ask-cli, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is ask-cli popular?

The npm package ask-cli receives a total of 2,341 weekly downloads. As such, ask-cli popularity was classified as small. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is ask-cli well maintained?

We found indications that ask-cli maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 30 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is ask-cli safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of ask-cli, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 21 November-2024, at 23:27 (UTC).

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