commando
An easy-to-use command-line application builder. (by thatisuday)
kong
Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)
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commando
Posts with mentions or reviews of commando.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-27.
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Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
At least for smaller apps, I like commando because it's light in terms of dependencies, it's straight-forward to use and parses getopt style parameters.
kong
Posts with mentions or reviews of kong.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.
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climate "CLI Mate": a CLI library that autogenerates CLIs from structs / functions with support for nested subcommands, global / local flags, help generation from godocs, typo suggestions, shell completion and more
I’ve been using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong for exposing generated protobuf structs for CLI args. How does your library compare?
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
I prefer https://github.com/alecthomas/kong these days
- I'm looking for a library that can parse through a string and pickup parameters and add it to a golang object
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Golang equivalent of Python’s click (CLT framework)
kong
- Python library cmd2 equivalent in golang
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Coral, a friendly Cobra fork with nearly all its features, but only 4 dependencies
We switched all our cli tools from cobra/viper to kong. I can highly recommend it. Almost no deps and easy to use, a great replacement for cobra in my opinion.
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Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
I switched all from viper to kong.
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I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
For all my commandline parsing and config loading needs I use kong. In contrast to Viper and Cobra it has almost no dependencies (while viper and cobra pull in half a jungle).
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Made my first command-line tool with Golang
I think it is probably just a matter of personal taste, but I like to handle params and flags on the main function. I am probably biased by C experience and using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong though. Kong is certainly not as popular as cobra, but its approach.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing commando and kong you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
ezcli - ✨ Minimal Go package for create CLI tools in <10 second!
kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser
ttrpc - GRPC for low-memory environments
go-flags - go command line option parser
ptr - Contains functions for simplified creation of pointers from constants of basic types
viper - Go configuration with fangs
vilmos - Official vilmos visual language interpreter!
urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
cli - CLI - A package for building command line app with go