godotenv VS urfave/cli

Compare godotenv vs urfave/cli and see what are their differences.

godotenv

A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files) (by joho)

urfave/cli

A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)
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godotenv urfave/cli
17 26
7,526 21,595
- 1.1%
3.7 8.8
about 1 month ago 22 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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godotenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of godotenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.
  • Autenticação com Golang e AWS Cognito
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
    Primeiro vamos carregar nossas envs com o pacote godotenv, depois iniciamos nosso cognito client, passando o COGNITO_CLIENT_ID, que pegamos anteriormente, depois iniciamos o gin e criamos um server, isso é o suficiente.
  • Tools besides Go for a newbie
    36 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
  • Reading Environment Variable from a .env file on a Server
    1 project | /r/golang | 21 Jan 2023
    In his code it is done using https://github.com/joho/godotenv
  • Libraries you use most of your projects?
    30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
  • Restful API with Golang practical approach
    9 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2022
    envconfig: Library for managing configuration data from environment variables (https://github.com/joho/godotenv)
  • Is this clear why its useful?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 11 Oct 2022
    There is already a more complete, safer and neatly written godotenv alternative. It may be taken as an educational inspiration for next attempts.
  • I need some help setting up variables for the sake of my sanity
    1 project | /r/golang | 4 May 2022
    Chances are you are going to set them in you real server, and most likely you will going to use Linux for that. So for local development create a .env file with those in there. And at the start of you program, load them. You can use https://github.com/joho/godotenv Don’t share that file of course, and don’t put it in git.
  • How can I "source" a bash script?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Feb 2022
    Maybe https://github.com/joho/godotenv can help
  • passwords, secrets, keys - best practice
    5 projects | /r/golang | 23 Feb 2022
    joho/godotenv
  • I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
    12 projects | /r/golang | 16 Jan 2022

urfave/cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of urfave/cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing godotenv and urfave/cli you can also consider the following projects:

viper - Go configuration with fangs

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

gotenv - Load environment variables from `.env` or `io.Reader` in Go.

go-flags - go command line option parser

structs - Golang struct operations.

kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser

xferspdy - Xferspdy provides binary diff and patch library in golang. [Mentioned in Awesome Go, https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go]

mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.

delve - Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

CLI Color - 🎨 Terminal color rendering library, support 8/16 colors, 256 colors, RGB color rendering output, support Print/Sprintf methods, compatible with Windows. GO CLI 控制台颜色渲染工具库,支持16色,256色,RGB色彩渲染输出,使用类似于 Print/Sprintf,兼容并支持 Windows 环境的色彩渲染

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

elvish - Powerful scripting language & Versatile interactive shell