CLI Tool

Recently I read articles about GitHub labels for issues. I recommend you to check them out. (Sorry one of them is Japanese only)

How we organize GitHub issues: A simple styleguide for tagging

https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues

Sane GitHub Labels

https://medium.com/@dave_lunny/sane-github-labels-c5d2e6004b63

GitHub Labels that are logical, colorful and sensible

https://seantrane.com/posts/logical-colorful-github-labels-18230/

GitHub Issuesのラベルを作り直す+Projectのかんばんを自動化

https://qiita.com/willow-micro/items/51eeb3efe5b4192a4abd

I think when you use the GitHub issues, probably many of you need to add/change labels. Actually, the default labels are well... not ideal. Generally, I add some new labels manually after I push the initial commit. That means I go to the issue board and add a label.
After reading the articles, I thought preparing labels that articles mentioned would be ↓

I checked GitHub API to create labels. Fortunately, there is a Labels API.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/issues#labels

The usage of the Labels API is very simple. We just need to pass a couple of parameters and create an instance with GitHub personal token since there is a JS library “octokit” that allows us to use the API easily.

<script type="module">
  import { Octokit } from "https://esm.sh/@octokit/core";
</script>

import { Octokit } from "@octokit/core";

// Create a personal access token at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=repo
const octokit = new

I wrote a simple application with Nodejs and Typescript.
I used a typescript-starter to save time for setup. typescript-starter is useful, but it was a little bit too much for this since the ESlint configuration helped me to detect issues but at the same time prevent running the script quickly lol.

npx typescript-starter

The script’s repo is here.

// label format
{
  "id": 3218144327,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwzMjE4MTQ0MzI3",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/koji/frontend-tools/labels/wontfix",
  "name": "wontfix",
  "color": "ffffff",
  "default": true,
  "description": "This will not be worked on"
}

This Nodejs script will ask you 3 things initially. GitHub personal token(wont’ keep it anywhere), GitHub id, and a target repo name.

It will offer 4 simple functionalities to the repo you set.

Create a label

You will need to pass a new label name, label color(hex code without #), and label description as parameters. Then create a new label on your repo.

Create labels

This function will create 29 labels which are set as constant here
If you change the constant, you can update labels easily.

Delete a label

This function will remove a tag from your repo. It requires a label name as a parameter. (In the future, this should get labels list and allow to select a label/labels by multi-select)

Delete all labels

This will delete all labels from your repo. First, get all labels' names from the repo and pass them as a parameter. The process is the same as “Delete a label”