GuardClauses VS spectre.console

You could also use the Ardalis Guard Clause, Ardalis Result and Fluent Validation

Here is an example how one would make sure our order total is valid. For this purpose I use an amazing library called GuardClauses.

GuardClauses

I'm guessing it's just a port of Ardalis' Guard class since he helped a lot with Microsoft's web projects.

The Guard Clauses are from: https://github.com/ardalis/GuardClauses

In terms of readability concerns, I definitely hear you on that. Using something like this can cut down on code bloat that comes with param validation and help with readability.

It's made by Ardalis, who wrote Microsoft's architectural guide for ASP.NET Core Web APIs. I like his GuardClauses library too.

I like this one for .NET https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console which I found in this list https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks.

The following code sample (a console project) uses Spectre.Console NuGet package to provide easy methods for gathering user input like first and last name of type string or perhaps birth date for a DateOnly property.

🔴 [spectre.console] A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful, cross platform, console applications.

https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console for doing pretty Cli applications

A friend and me have been working on an opinionated wrapper around the popular Spectre.Console. We call it SpectreCoff (Spectre.Console for F#).

Spectre.Console for enhanced console writting.

Add the NuGet package Spectre.Console to the project

By using open source library like Spectre.Console creating useful console applications easy. Spectre.Console also makes it easy to create dotnet tools, see documentation and check out their GitHub repository.