kong
Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)
mage
a Make/rake-like dev tool using Go (by magefile)
| kong | mage | |
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| 9 | 9 | |
| 1,831 | 3,898 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 7.6 | 4.0 | |
| 26 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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)
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- 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.
mage
Posts with mentions or reviews of mage.
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
mage being a build tool and climate being a CLI library, a direct comparison probably doesn't make much sense but their parsing (https://github.com/magefile/mage/blob/master/parse/parse.go) seems very similar to what I'm doing for metadata (param names / godocs / comments etc.).
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Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile?
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Anyone else doing compiler work in Golang?
https://github.com/magefile/mage but I haven't tried it as am not a fun of make like tools.
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Do we have a package.json/scripts section alternative in Golang?
I prefer https://github.com/magefile/mage
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[sema v1.0.0] First Major Version Bump
We now use mage to cross-compile release binaries as proposed by u/g00py3 in this Reddit discussion.
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//go:generate with ENV variables?
Try github.com/magefile/mage - it's written in Go and lets you write Go to run scripts rather than writing bash inside yaml ;)
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Mage v1.13 is released - now supports magefiles in a subdir
Mage v1.13 was released as of yesterday. This included a few small fixes, and a big new feature - subdirectory support.
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Ugly code, improvement suggestions needed
If you need build automation, use mage.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kong and mage you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
Cockatrice - A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
goyek - Task automation Go library
go-flags - go command line option parser
taskflow - Create build pipelines in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/goyek/goyek]
viper - Go configuration with fangs
PacketProxy - A local proxy written in Java
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
HattrickOrganizer - Assistant for Hattrick online football manager
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
symphony-of-empires - Symphony of the Empires is a RTS strategy game and map game.