Show samples in the terminal

[waldekmastykarz]

When installing CLI for Microsoft 365 next to the code, you also get all help files including samples. Would it be helpful if you could see them in the terminal without having to go to the browser? What if we offered commands like:

$ m365 sample list
... shows list of available samples with an interactive selector to select a sample to show

Would it be helpful to allow searching for samples like:

$ m365 sample search -q teams
... lists all samples matching the query with an interactive selector to choose a sample to show

[garrytrinder]

Nice idea, we may also want to introduce a --shell option to filter the list down as we have both bash and powershell based samples.

[waldekmastykarz]

Good idea!

[arjunumenon]

That is a very nice idea. Minimising context switching is always amazing.
But I am wondering how the behaviour is going to be when we give something like

m365 sample search -q teams

I am assuming it would be listing the samples continuously right? Not an interactive shell right (Being a bit over ambitious here 😀)

[waldekmastykarz]

The way I'd solve it is to show a list of samples we found, allowing the user to select one interactively (we should be able to implement it using inquirer which we use for prompting already) and when they did, show the contents of that particular sample.

[arjunumenon]

That will be amazing if we are able to. Personally I would love to have all the details without switching my context.
If we are able to make it interactive, that will be golden.
Another thing which I can think of with that is, if we are able to push the details (On what they are looking) into our insights, we will be able to get more details on what user is primarily looking which will help us to focus on which areas the users are looking for.

[waldekmastykarz]

Good idea!