go-flags
go command line option parser (by jessevdk)
kong
Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)
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| go-flags | kong | |
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| 9 | 9 | |
| 2,505 | 1,813 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.6 | |
| 4 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
go-flags
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-flags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags provides a pretty neat way to specify flags and handle commands. Not so much extensible as cobra, but good enough for small cli tools
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Show HN: New set of Go libraries for CLI Development
flags aims to merge the concepts from https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags, and https://github.com/octago/sflags, both relying on struct tags to define CLI command specs. The flags library uses these underlying concepts to produce complete `cobra.Command` trees, and brings many comfort-of-life improvements for the generated applications/commands.
Console (https://github.com/reeflective/console)
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
Flags (https://github.com/reeflective/flags) flags aims to merge the concepts from https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags, and https://github.com/octago/sflags, both relying on struct tags to define CLI command specs. The flags library uses these underlying concepts to produce complete `cobra.Command` trees, and brings many comfort-of-life improvements for the generated applications/commands.
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Golang equivalent of Python’s click (CLT framework)
go-flags
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Eclipse: python-fire inspired library to simplify creating CLIs in Go, on top of Cobra
Yeah, I just didn't need the command-subcommand scheme. I used the go-flags test file for examples: https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags/blob/master/example_test.go
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Golang - Writing CLI App in Golang with Cobra
There are alternatives available for Cobra as well i.e. mitchellh/cli, go-flags, urfave/cli etc.
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What are some good open source project to read when learning Go?
https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags - struct based flag parsing
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-flags and kong you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
viper - Go configuration with fangs
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.