Building My First npm Package: Slothcommit

If you write code every day, you probably write Git commit messages every day too.And if you're honest… you probably don’t enjoy it.

I definitely didn’t.

So I built a small tool that fixes this tiny but annoying problem.
It’s called slothcommit , an AI-powered CLI that generates commit messages for you.

yeah so i decided to write this blog on " my first npm package" , why I built it, and what I learned along the way.

The Problem: Writing Commit Messages is Annoying

My typical workflow looked something like this:

Write some code
Stage the files

git add .

Then get stuck writing a commit message.

Sometimes I would write something lazy like:

fix stuff

Or something even worse:

update

When I did want a good commit message, the workflow was painful:

Copy my code changes
Paste them into ChatGPT
Ask it to generate a commit message
Copy the result back
Finally run git commit

It worked but thing is it was slow and repetitive and focus am lazy asf so i wanted a more lazier way to do this git commit message thing.

So I thought:

Why can't a CLI tool just do this automatically?

That idea became slothcommit.

The Idea Behind Slothcommit

The idea was simple.

Instead of manually writing commit messages, a CLI tool should:

Look at the git diff
Send it to an AI model
Generate a clean conventional commit message
Run the commit automatically

So the workflow becomes:

git add .
sloth

And that's it.

workflow diagram :

What Slothcommit Does (or how it works)

slothcommit is an AI-powered Git commit assistant.

It analyzes your staged changes and generates a commit message using the Conventional Commit format.

Example output:

feat(auth): add refresh token middleware

and while am writing this blog the package is now getting 100+ downloads every week, which is really encouraging to see!

If you haven’t tried it yet, check it out here:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/slothcommit

and in case you like it ? do give it a star https://github.com/anshumancodes/sloth

I Built My First npm Package , and It Solves Something with Git

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