ff
Flags-first package for configuration (by peterbourgon)
conf
Package conf provides support for using environmental variables and command line arguments for configuration. (by ardanlabs)
| ff | conf | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | |
| 1,309 | 219 | |
| - | 2.3% | |
| 5.9 | 4.9 | |
| 21 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
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.
conf
Posts with mentions or reviews of conf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-16.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ff and conf you can also consider the following projects:
go-envconfig - A Go library for parsing struct tags from environment variables.
cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
xflags - Expressive flags for Go
go-yamlcfg
confetti - A minimal configuration manager for Go applications.
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
copre - A small library to load configuration from multiple sources with predefined precedence