Show HN: Kmdr – Explains the syntax of CLI commands you select in the browser (opens in new tab)

Thanks abendy. Explain shell is awesome, no doubt. But we saw it's limitations given the parser it is using and being based on manpages. With a different parser and separate backend of descriptions that we control and can improve upon, the differences today include being able to explain complex commands (docker, kubectl, npm, go, apt, etc) and more complicated bash constructs (multiline, variable assignments, command expansions, and subshells). Then extending beyond explanations, we're moving in a direction of leveraging accounts. We'll allow folks to have their own `cheatsheets` by being able to save the commands they query and want to hold on to. Also we'd like to bridge back to our CLI client through accounts, and be able to connect browser and terminal more seemlessly.

hey abeyer, thanks for the feedback.

kmdr-cli[0] won't go away. It's definitely our base and when we launched with it initially, we learned that people are willing to install and wanting to have something that's running in their terminal. What prompted us to focus on the browser, was that a huge number of our queries (55%) were coming from our demo page on our website. We're a team of 3, so investing in the browser extension meant a hault to progress in kmdr-cli but we fully intend to re-invest there and bridge browser and kmdr-cli. This morning we updated the kmdr-cli to leverage the same definitions available on the browser extension. Next will be to leverage the same parser.

[0] https://github.com/ediardo/kmdr-cli