ff
Flags-first package for configuration (by peterbourgon)
go-arg
Struct-based argument parsing in Go (by alexflint)
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7 | 6 | |
1,309 | 1,869 | |
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5.9 | 5.4 | |
22 days ago | 30 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
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.
go-arg
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-arg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
- Go-Arg: Struct-based argument parsing in Go
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Build a GitHub Issues Reporter for failing Kubernetes Apps with Botkube Plugins
Under the hood, the pluginx.ParseCommand method uses go-arg.
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
I’ve used multiple libraries over the last two years but less is more and go-arg feels like something that would be in the stdlib: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg
- Libraries you use most of your projects?
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Best practice for configuring secrets
I use this: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg and setting defaults for my local environment. So no need to keep a .env file.
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Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
I personally swear by the go-arg package, as i prefer its library-not-framework approach.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ff and go-arg you can also consider the following projects:
go-envconfig - A Go library for parsing struct tags from environment variables.
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
conf - Package conf provides support for using environmental variables and command line arguments for configuration.
flag - Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand
cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
xflags - Expressive flags for Go
go-flags - go command line option parser
go-yamlcfg
viper - Go configuration with fangs
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.