go-flags
go command line option parser (by jessevdk)
readline
Shell library with powerful and modern UI, large feature set, and `.inputrc` support (by reeflective)
| go-flags | readline | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | |
| 2,509 | 73 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.5 | |
| 19 days ago | 19 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
readline
Posts with mentions or reviews of readline.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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CLI application libraries, updated versions (readline and spf13/cobra console).
A readline shell library: https://github.com/reeflective/readline.The `readline` library has been fully rewritten to provide full support for the widespread `.inputrc` init file format (used by bash shells and all programs using the GNU C Readline library). The library has been rewritten into a much more robust codebase with complete test coverage of the core code.
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Show HN: New set of Go libraries for CLI Development
This library wraps the readline library (described below) and leverages cobra commands in order to provide a closed-loop console working with cobra commands out of the box, also providing many comfort-of-life features at minimum cost, like support for oh-my-posh prompt engines, different menus and much more.
Readline (https://github.com/reeflective/readline)
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
Readline (https://github.com/reeflective/readline) Readline libraries in pure Go already exist, and the chzyer/readline one is widely used. However they might lack some features, or even a full-fledged Emacs/Vim edition mode. Most of them lack many UI features found in common shells. Readline has been written to bring a new shell library with features found in most recent shells, with a simple API for developpers.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-flags and readline you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
console - Closed-loop application library for Cobra commands (powerful, ready-to-run and easy to use)
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
flags - Generate cobra command trees from structs. Go-flags compliant tags. Advanced CLI functionality, out-of-the-box.
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
sflags - Generate flags by parsing structures
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
chroma - A general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go
mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
readline - Readline is a pure go(golang) implementation for GNU-Readline kind library