spectre.console
A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications. (by spectresystems)
Cocona
Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET. (by mayuki)
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| spectre.console | Cocona | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 7 | |
| 8,524 | 2,999 | |
| 3.4% | - | |
| 8.5 | 5.8 | |
| 1 day ago | 12 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | MIT 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.
spectre.console
Posts with mentions or reviews of spectre.console.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.
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Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
I like this one for .NET https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console which I found in this list https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks.
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Gentle introduction for generics (C#)
The following code sample (a console project) uses Spectre.Console NuGet package to provide easy methods for gathering user input like first and last name of type string or perhaps birth date for a DateOnly property.
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Dotnet.World.News(Wednesday, September, 20, 2023)
🔴 [spectre.console] A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful, cross platform, console applications.
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spectre.console VS FluentConsole.Net - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 3 Jun 2023
- How do you write something without having to use Console.SetCursorPosition or clearing the entire screen?
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What your hidden nuget gems ?
https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console for doing pretty Cli applications
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What are you working on? (2023-02)
A friend and me have been working on an opinionated wrapper around the popular Spectre.Console. We call it SpectreCoff (Spectre.Console for F#).
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SQL-Server: Computed columns with Ef Core
Spectre.Console for enhanced console writting.
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EF Power Tools tutorial
Add the NuGet package Spectre.Console to the project
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Console applications in C#
By using open source library like Spectre.Console creating useful console applications easy. Spectre.Console also makes it easy to create dotnet tools, see documentation and check out their GitHub repository.
Cocona
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cocona.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
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.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
yes its great good for cross-platform cmdline apps, i would recommend using Cocona https://github.com/mayuki/Cocona
- Best way to build a console app with command line parser and dependency injection?
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ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 7 Preview 5
I've used Cocona for my personal cmd stuff now and it's definitely a better experience imo. It supports both minimal api style and controller-ish style.
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Announcing .NET 7 Preview 2 – The New, ‘New’ Experience
They are taking sooooooo long to actually finish that library it’s annoying. This is the most ergonomic one i have found so far.
- What's your favorite command line arg parser?
- Cocona releases V2 (Micro-framework for .NET Core console application). [Not Mine]
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My preferred .NET console stack – An opinionated view on .NET console apps
Cocona [1] is my command line parsing library of choice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing spectre.console and Cocona you can also consider the following projects:
Gui.cs - Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET
Command Line Parser - The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style, for .NET. Includes F# support
command-line-api - Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.
Console Framework - Cross-platform toolkit for easy development of TUI applications.
CSharpRepl - A command line C# REPL with syntax highlighting – explore the language, libraries and nuget packages interactively.
runtimelab - This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main dotnet/runtime repo.
CliFx - Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces
Spectre.Console.Extensions - A library that extends Spectre.Console to build beautiful console apps.
CommandLineUtils - Command line parsing and utilities for .NET
CommandDotNet - A modern framework for building modern CLI apps
spectre.console vs Gui.cs
Cocona vs Command Line Parser
spectre.console vs Command Line Parser
Cocona vs command-line-api
spectre.console vs Console Framework
Cocona vs CSharpRepl
spectre.console vs command-line-api
Cocona vs runtimelab
spectre.console vs CliFx
Cocona vs Spectre.Console.Extensions
spectre.console vs CommandLineUtils
Cocona vs CommandDotNet