go-flags
go command line option parser (by jessevdk)
go-arg
Struct-based argument parsing in Go (by alexflint)
| go-flags | go-arg | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 6 | |
| 2,510 | 1,872 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 5.4 | |
| 25 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
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
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 go-flags and go-arg you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
flag - Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
viper - Go configuration with fangs
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables