Can we add objects too? It would be really nice to specify plugins as command-line options. (I have a crash debugger plugin that is only conditionally turned on when debugging.)

How would you like to see this on the CLI?

Current option I'm thinking of is

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins my-plugin-1,my-plugin-2@my-plugin-import
                                     |  name   | |  name   | |    import    |

But this could become more complex if we add more options to plugins

Initially I thought JSON object as both name and import can be specified for a single plugin and we can have multiple plugins. This helps if we support more options in the future

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins '[{ "name": "my-plugin-1" }, { "name": "my-plugin-2" }]'

It looks quite verbose but at least grants the ability to control these plugins via CLI

Perhaps name only might be a solution

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins my-plugin-1,my-plugin-2

Or maybe we need some other CLI options to include/exclude plugins so users don't have to deal with a potentially tricky CLI syntax

TypeScript doesn't have any examples to pull from and the last time I needed to specify an object via CLI I just used JSON 🤔

How would you like to see this on the CLI?

Current option I'm thinking of is

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins my-plugin-1,my-plugin-2@my-plugin-import
                                     |  name   | |  name   | |    import    |

But this could become more complex if we add more options to plugins

Initially I thought JSON object as both name and import can be specified for a single plugin and we can have multiple plugins. This helps if we support more options in the future

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins '[{ "name": "my-plugin-1" }, { "name": "my-plugin-2" }]'

It looks quite verbose but at least grants the ability to control these plugins via CLI

Perhaps name only might be a solution

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins my-plugin-1,my-plugin-2

Or maybe we need some other CLI options to include/exclude plugins so users don't have to deal with a potentially tricky CLI syntax

TypeScript doesn't have any examples to pull from and the last time I needed to specify an object via CLI I just used JSON 🤔

I'd say probably just straight up json syntax, but I'd also be okay with doing this in a followup PR

$ tstl -p tsconfig.json --luaPlugins '[{ "name": "my-plugin-1" }, { "name": "my-plugin-2" }]'

yes, this format is what i intuitively expect to work.
i was surprised that it wasn't already built in to tstl when i tried this a few months ago

Thanks all! I'll just clean up my PR a bit for review

Ready for review @Perryvw!