cmd vs Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs

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A library to create shell-like command processors (by gobs)

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Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs

Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang (by rivo)

Command-line Advanced Console UIs Golang user-interface terminal-based

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cmd		Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs
	Project
4	Mentions	23
14	Stars	9,809
-	Growth	-
4.0	Activity	8.2
7 months ago	Latest Commit	about 14 hours ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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cmd

Posts with mentions or reviews of cmd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

Recommendations on building a simple DSL REPL?
5 projects | /r/golang | 18 Mar 2023

I wrote this a long time ago https://github.com/gobs/cmd as Go implementation of "python cmd", for uses similar to what you describe.
Python library cmd2 equivalent in golang
4 projects | /r/golang | 6 Sep 2022

The example here https://github.com/gobs/cmd/blob/master/example/main.go is pretty complete (but it doesn't really do anything).
Is there a package to create a bash-like command-line interpreter in Go?
2 projects | /r/golang | 28 Apr 2022

I also have my implementation inspired by Python cmd, that I use for a bunch of my tools: https://github.com/gobs/cmd

Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-17.

What are some good projects in Go for an experienced dev?
2 projects | /r/golang | 17 Nov 2023

I've had fun writing an app with https://github.com/rivo/tview.
Picnic-TUI - Where Go and Groceries Create a Command-Line Feast
7 projects | dev.to | 12 Sep 2023

Spotify-TUI was developed in Rust, therefore I couldn’t simply use the same UI framework. Within Go a popular choice is tview https://github.com/rivo/tview which provides many similar UI widgets which covered all my needs.
GoLang — Simplifying Complexity “The Beginning”
9 projects | dev.to | 27 May 2023

. Web backend (with various frameworks available) . Web Assembly (one of them is vugu framework) . Microservices (some frameworks: Go Micro, Go Kit, Gizmo, Kite) . Fragments services (Term mentioned by @jeffotoni in a microservices discussion group) . Lambdas (FaaS example) . Client Server . Terminal applications (using the tview lib) . IoT (some frameworks) . Bots (some here) . Client Applications using Web technology . Desktop using Qt+QML, Native Win Lib (example Qt, Qt widgets, Qml) . Network Applications . Protocol applications . REST Applications . SOAP Applications . GraphQL Applications . RPC Applications . TCP Applications . gRPC Applications . WebSocket Applications . GopherJS (compiles Go to JavaScript)
Recommendations on building a simple DSL REPL?
5 projects | /r/golang | 18 Mar 2023

The jist of what I did: The TUI lib I used was https://github.com/rivo/tview. While technically a TUI, it didn't look like one. Tui gave me components for user input, context-aware output formatting, and configurable hotkeys and command shortcuts. History was just an in-memory string map bound to a hotkey.
Help to find a terminal library
3 projects | /r/golang | 12 Mar 2023

tview is built on top of the tcell library mentioned in another comment. I liked it so much that I forked it as cview.
Ramen has reached v0.2.0, the first production-ready version (in my opinion)
3 projects | /r/ethdev | 13 Feb 2023

It's tview, the same framework underlying awesome k9s project.
Equivalent to Pythons Rich?
3 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jan 2023
WhatsApp in the terminal
3 projects | /r/golang | 28 Nov 2022

A tui client for WhatsApp. My first ever go project!!! As a very slow learner I am really proud of how far I could bullshit my way through it. I used tview and whatsmeow for this.
Need a TUI with multiline text input or good interactive CLI-interface style support
6 projects | /r/golang | 21 Jul 2022

After a user request cycle, however, the tview textarea widget is now in active development so stay tuned!
Best Package for Go Interactive Shell
2 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cmd and Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs you can also consider the following projects:

kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

termui - Golang terminal dashboard

kubectl - Issue tracker and mirror of kubectl code

gocui - Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.

httpclient - More flexible http client library for Go

go-prompt - Building powerful interactive prompts in Go, inspired by python-prompt-toolkit.

dynago - DynamoDB client for Go

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

tui-go

pterm - ✨ #PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more 🚀 It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.