kong
Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)
cobra
A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions (by spf13)
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1,813 | 35,891 | |
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7.6 | 7.8 | |
15 days ago | 8 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kong
Posts with mentions or reviews of kong.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.
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climate "CLI Mate": a CLI library that autogenerates CLIs from structs / functions with support for nested subcommands, global / local flags, help generation from godocs, typo suggestions, shell completion and more
I’ve been using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong for exposing generated protobuf structs for CLI args. How does your library compare?
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
I prefer https://github.com/alecthomas/kong these days
- I'm looking for a library that can parse through a string and pickup parameters and add it to a golang object
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Golang equivalent of Python’s click (CLT framework)
kong
- Python library cmd2 equivalent in golang
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Coral, a friendly Cobra fork with nearly all its features, but only 4 dependencies
We switched all our cli tools from cobra/viper to kong. I can highly recommend it. Almost no deps and easy to use, a great replacement for cobra in my opinion.
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Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
I switched all from viper to kong.
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I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
For all my commandline parsing and config loading needs I use kong. In contrast to Viper and Cobra it has almost no dependencies (while viper and cobra pull in half a jungle).
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Made my first command-line tool with Golang
I think it is probably just a matter of personal taste, but I like to handle params and flags on the main function. I am probably biased by C experience and using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong though. Kong is certainly not as popular as cobra, but its approach.
cobra
Posts with mentions or reviews of cobra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-06.
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The power of the CLI with Golang and Cobra CLI
We can use the flag with --date or -date, Go already does the automatic check. We can make our entire boilerplate with this approach, but let's make it a little easier and use the Cobra CLI package.
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Build your own curl in Golang
In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of creating a simple command-line tool similar to curl using Go and Cobra, a CLI library for Go.
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Scripts should be written using the project main language
I use https://github.com/spf13/cobra religiously for this kind of thing - it handles all the annoying corner cases of parsing flags, and also has an intuitive notion of subcommands (with basic usage/help text generated) for picking which task you want to run with positional arguments.
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Command Line Interface Guidelines
We recently chose cobra[1] to create a cli application. It comes with so many best practices already packaged like autocompletions, help texts etc. etc.
[1]: https://github.com/spf13/cobra
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What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
github.com/spf13/cobra
- O poder do CLI com Golang e Cobra CLI
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How to read Cobra command line flag
I looked at the docs: https://cobra.dev/ ... and there are only examples on how to add new flags.
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Dockerizing Golang CLI Tool - A Step-by-Step Guide
For installing Cobra-CLI you can go to Cobraor run go install github.com/spf13/cobra-cli@latest in the terminal.
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Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial
In my build phase, I compile the source to create a k3sup binary and I also run the binary to generate shell script completions. Give kudos to this functionality which comes from spf13/cobra Go library for CLIs.
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Add License Headers to Your Code Files
NWA is a command-line tool built on cobra. Here's an overview of NWA's commands:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kong and cobra you can also consider the following projects:
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
go-flags - go command line option parser
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
viper - Go configuration with fangs
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.