Kingfisher VS cli

Compare Kingfisher vs cli and see what are their differences.

Kingfisher

A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. (by onevcat)

cli

GitHub’s official command line tool (by cli)
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Kingfisher cli
19 252
22,742 35,117
- 2.1%
8.4 9.7
3 days ago about 10 hours ago
Swift Go
MIT License MIT License
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Kingfisher

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kingfisher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
  • Question about Apple's review
    6 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 17 May 2023
    The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers
  • How do you guys handle image caching?
    5 projects | /r/reactnative | 6 Dec 2022
    In native iOS, most people use Kingfisher, and i'd love to have something as good as that on our RN app. Perhaps just some pure JS library that you could plug on the existing image component, and that would handle the saving-to-disk and fetching of the image?
  • Cracking the iOS Interview
    10 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    Kingfisher - Download and cache images
  • Almost Netflix: An iOS Netflix Clone built with Appwrite
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2022
    Make sure the proper target is selected in the Add to target in the dialog as shown above, then click Add Package button. The package should successfully be added to your project. Now following the same process, this time search for the Kingfisher package using the GitHub URL as the following https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.
  • Awesome macOS Libraries List
    76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022
    Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. Language: Swift.
  • What is your favorite SwiftUI library?
    11 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 31 Dec 2021
  • How can I get the image from a URL and make it UIImage?
    2 projects | /r/swift | 19 Oct 2021
    Urlsession is the native approach, but there are also libraries that asynchronously download and show the images like SDWebImage or Kingfisher
  • The Composable Architecture tutorial
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2021
    // swift-tools-version:5.3 // The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package. import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: "DogBreedsComponent", platforms: [.iOS(.v14)], products: [ .library( name: "DogBreedsComponent", targets: ["DogBreedsComponent"] ), ], dependencies: [ // 1. .package( name: "swift-composable-architecture", url: "https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture.git", .exact("0.17.0") ), // 2. .package( name: "Kingfisher", url: "https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher", .exact("6.2.1") ) ], targets: [ .target( name: "DogBreedsComponent", dependencies: [ .product(name: "ComposableArchitecture", package: "swift-composable-architecture"), .product(name: "Kingfisher", package: "Kingfisher") ] ), .testTarget( name: "DogBreedsComponentTests", dependencies: [ "DogBreedsComponent", .product(name: "ComposableArchitecture", package: "swift-composable-architecture") ] ), ] )
  • How do you handle fetching data from REST API and caching?
    3 projects | /r/SwiftUI | 31 May 2021
    Image loading, displaying and caching is a very similar problem and it seems there are some pretty good solutions available (e.g. Kingfisher), so I'm quite surprised that I'm struggling to find a popular/reliable/stable solution for (REST) API data.
  • Library Suggestion needed for Image, Video and GIF
    2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 27 May 2021
    https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher is one of many.

cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-16.
  • pyaction 4.28.0 Released
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2024
    GitHub CLI 2.44.1
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2024
    This Docker image is designed to support implementing Github Actions with Python. As of version 4.0.0., it starts with the official python docker image as the base which is a Debian OS. It specifically uses python:3-slim to keep the image size down for faster loading of Github Actions that use pyaction. On top of the base, we've installed curl gpg, git, and the GitHub CLI. We added curl and gpg because they are needed to install the GitHub CLI, and they may come in handy anyway (especially curl) when implementing a GitHub Action.
  • The Ladybird Browser Project
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
    You might be interested in GitHub's cli tool, which is open source, if you want to access GitHub without running their proprietary JS code.

    https://cli.github.com/

  • Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
    29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    View on GitHub
  • NixOS has one fatal flaw
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2023
    (Context: I'm pretty thick into Nix, and have been for about four years. Most of this post is focussed on the NixOS desktop experience, so DevOps nerds, ymmv.)

    Unpopular opinion: Nix is not that hard.

    What's "hard" from a nix-promotion strategy is motivating people to understand why they would want the benefits it offers. Mostly because Nix, especially with home-manager, dramatically worsens UX for several day-to-day tasks, simply by violating the Law of Least Surprise every couple of hours in normal use.

    I want a fully idempotent, version-locked, rewindable user environment, with a version-controlled central config, because I have half a dozen devices that, for reasons, I need to keep perfectly interchangeable with one another. Most users do not want this, for the simple fact that mutating their configs and differentiating them locally on specific machines is not a bug, but a feature.

    Even more than that, it's an expectation that most software developers share as well.

    Case in point: I filed a bug against the GitHub CLI last week. If any org has the scope and motivation to build software that's compatible with NixOS, an OS most of whose users are developers, it should be GitHub, which is, at least notionally, all about developers, developers, developers. A change in GH required a config format migration, which was sensibly done by opening the config .yml and rewriting it.

    Of course, this breaks NixOS not just in practice but in principle. NixOS/home-manager makes config files read-only. Surprise! https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/8462

    The response from GitHub was basically, "yeah, we knew this was going to happen, we mentioned it to the packagers at NixOS, but we did it anyway, because it was still the best way to proceed for us." (And they weren't wrong.)

    Now, once a month is an annoyance, but I run into these problems daily. I can't imagine any sane person -- which I am not -- would persist with using it.

    Why do I keep using NixOS, then? Because I am terribly and disproprotionately annoyed by small changes in my user experience, which I find disruptive to my workflow and hence threaten my success. For me, forbidding apps from mutating the config files I established for them is a selling point. Being able to version-control an idempotent declarative config for all of them at once is heaven.

    Unless you're like me, you'll hate NixOS. But some were meant for Nix.

    Because

  • pyaction 4.27.0 Released
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2023
    GitHub CLI 2.40.0
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Dec 2023
    This Docker image is designed to support implementing Github Actions with Python. As of version 4.0.0., it starts with the official python docker image as the base which is a Debian OS. It specifically uses python:3-slim to keep the image size down for faster loading of Github Actions that use pyaction. On top of the base, we've installed curl gpg, git, and the GitHub CLI. We added curl and gpg because they are needed to install the GitHub CLI, and they may come in handy anyway (especially curl) when implementing a GitHub Action.
  • Everything I install and set up on a new MacBook as a web developer
    6 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023
    Two CLI tools I install right away are the GitHub CLI (via brew) and the Netlify CLI (via npm).
  • I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    From the second article, a minor point but possibly helpful to other here, he contrasts doing everything in the terminal with stacked commits vs going to the Github UI. If people aren't aware, Github offers a cli tool[1]. I've been using it for a few months now and am finding it does make me more productive -- it's nice to be able to open up a PR directly from my terminal. I do still use the GH UI for a lot of things, but I'll often at least start in the terminal, and it also makes the transition from terminal to browser easy as many commands support the `--web` flag open up the right page for you (eg `gh repo view --web`).

    [1] https://cli.github.com/

  • Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in the CLI🚀
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2023
    To install copilot in the cli, you must first install GitHub CLI and complete authentication in an OAuth browser window. Since I'm on macOS, I used homebrew as my package manager:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kingfisher and cli you can also consider the following projects:

SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

Nuke - Image loading system

AlamofireImage - AlamofireImage is an image component library for Alamofire

SwiftSVG - A simple, performant, and lightweight SVG parser

SDWebImageSwiftUI - SwiftUI Image loading and Animation framework powered by SDWebImage

AsyncImageView - [DEPRECATED]

PINRemoteImage - A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher

ImageSlideshow - Swift image slideshow with circular scrolling, timer and full screen viewer

HanekeSwift - A lightweight generic cache for iOS written in Swift with extra love for images.

FastImageCache - iOS library for quickly displaying images while scrolling

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

APNGKit - High performance and delightful way to play with APNG format in iOS.