kong
Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)
ff
Flags-first package for configuration (by peterbourgon)
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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.
ff
Posts with mentions or reviews of ff.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
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What is the most common approach to configure a backend app?
We have been using https://github.com/peterbourgon/ff for long time now. It combines the standard flags with the environment variables nicely.
- Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
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Best practice for configuring secrets
Tho, its also very common to use flags as they add documentation. You can use a mix of both. Maybe something in the lines of https://github.com/peterbourgon/ff
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I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
Have a look at https://github.com/peterbourgon/ff
- I created my own config manager package because others seemed too complex and full of features that I'm never going to use.
- How do you manage your service configuration?
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Go modules are soon going to be the only future
Here are the tags and the branches for one of my repos, which has seen major version 1, 2, and 3 so far.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kong and ff you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
go-envconfig - A Go library for parsing struct tags from environment variables.
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
conf - Package conf provides support for using environmental variables and command line arguments for configuration.
go-flags - go command line option parser
cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
viper - Go configuration with fangs
xflags - Expressive flags for Go
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
go-yamlcfg
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
copre - A small library to load configuration from multiple sources with predefined precedence