go-flags
go command line option parser (by jessevdk)
ff
Flags-first package for configuration (by peterbourgon)
| go-flags | ff | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 7 | |
| 2,509 | 1,315 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 5.9 | |
| 18 days ago | 24 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | 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.
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
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-flags and ff you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
go-envconfig - A Go library for parsing struct tags from environment variables.
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
conf - Package conf provides support for using environmental variables and command line arguments for configuration.
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
xflags - Expressive flags for Go
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
go-yamlcfg
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.