command.default(name) doesn't seem to work as expected

[justinmchase]

I setup a command with two sub commands and then added

command.default(subCommands[0].name)

Then I am running my app without any arguments and it does not seem to work, it just prints out the usage and exits as it did before. If I add a single argument it executes the correct sub command.

The documentation doesn't seem to have any examples of how to use the command.default(name) function either.

[NfNitLoop]

A year later, I had a similar problem. .default() was silently failing in some cases, and giving odd errors in others. I think it was because it was getting registered as a default for the sub-commands?

For those that end up here from web searches, here's what ended up working for me, using jsr:@cliffy/command@1.0.0-rc.5:

    const cmd = new Command()
        .default("help")

    // Add all my individual commands like:
    cmd.command("foo")
        .description("whatever")
        .option(/* etc */)
        .action(fooCommand) 
        
    // Don't forget to add that default "help" command:
    cmd.command("help")
        .description("Show this help.")
        .action(() => {
            cmd.showHelp()
        })