awesome-cli-frameworks
Thor
awesome-cli-frameworks | Thor | |
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522 | 5,087 | |
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7.5 | 6.9 | |
3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
HTML | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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awesome-cli-frameworks
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Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
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.
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Build Your Own CLI App in 5 Minutes (ClackJS + Node + NPM Tutorial)
Done! But before you start this project for yourself, take into consideration that Clack is really lacking in the documentation. Anything fairly complex, you won’t benefit from the pre-made components of clack/prompts. Here's a list of other CLI frameworks you can use instead.
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Ask HN: Simple framework/way to create command-line apps?
Oclif was one I used a while back but, last I tried it (a couple of months ago), there were either technical or documentation issues that made it a challenge to get started. It sounded like they were in the middle of fixes though so that might be worth a look. Combined with a solid HTTP package like axios, that would be a good leg up if you are proficient in JS.
Good list of options here:
https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks
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Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
Thor looks great! I'd be surprised if something similar didn't exist for most languages, but with many of them living in obscurity because discovery is so hard without a well-established name for that class of tool. Some googling for "CLI framework" led me to oclif ("Thor for js"?) and to https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2020/06/12/comparing-cli-b... , but that can't be everything.
PS: https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks also lists some for go and rust, getting there! (though most probably not half as complete as Thor, self-documentation should definitely be a first-class citizen!)
Thor
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CLI tools at Aha!
Ruby has always been a great general-purpose scripting language and is often used to create command-line utilities. Many of these use the excellent Thor gem to parse command-line options, but there's no escaping one fact: command-line utilities just aren't interesting. Never have been, never will be.
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How to Build Your Own Rails Generator
All public methods in the generator will be called one after the other. Private methods will not be called but are available in your public methods like regular Ruby classes.
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Any opinionated tool / framework for creating binary CLI tools?
ruby: http://whatisthor.com
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Seeking recommendations or suggestions for learning Ruby to maintain the home directory?
I will add that if you want to develop a CLI tool that gives you various commands that you can run, I would have a look at something like thor to keep it organised and documented. But this is completely unnecessary as a first step - you can simply create a Ruby file that does a thing you want and invoke it directly.
- A more ruby-ish command line parsing - design idea
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Bootstrapping with Ruby on Rails Generators and Templates
Not to be confused with generator functions (which you might be familiar with from Python or Javascript), Rails generators are custom Thor commands that focus on, well, generating things.
- Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
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Building a Dot Matrix Animator
I wanted to provide a command-line interface for the user that was easy to use, and I also wanted to provide the flexibility with the options used to render the animation. After looking around online I found that Thor was a good tool to utilize. It allowed me to easily create a number of options that make this program much more versatile. An example below shows how a user can select which folder the source images are in, as well as what the background and foreground colors should be:
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Move over Rake, Thor is the new King
I've used Thor a lot, but it's kind of terrible. It uses a custom non-POSIX-compliant option parser (ex: method_option :list, type: :array -> --list one two three, where as the POSIX way is --list one,two,three or --item one -- item two --item three) and will not error on unknown options or exit with -1 when not enough args are given. If you want a better CLI library, checkout dry-rb, command_kit, or cmdparse.
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Ruby for replacing Unix shell scripts? (eg. a better Perl)
And Thor might be worth looking at if you have complex scripts: https://github.com/erikhuda/thor
What are some alternatives?
openapi-typescript-codegen - NodeJS library that generates Typescript or Javascript clients based on the OpenAPI specification
TTY - Toolkit for developing sleek command line apps.
restish - Restish is a CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features built-in
Rake - A make-like build utility for Ruby.
awesome-resources - :sunglasses: List of helpful resources added by the community for the community!
GLI - Make awesome command-line applications the easy way
calendar - What's Upcoming in 2023? - A collection of awesome ruby conferences & camps from around the world - Add your ruby conference or camp!
Commander - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables
awesome-django - The original Awesome Django project. Permission granted by the original author. Now under new management! :)
dry-cli - General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby
openapi-cli-generator - Generate a CLI from an OpenAPI 3 specification
Trollop - Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.