commando
An easy-to-use command-line application builder. (by thatisuday)
go-arg
Struct-based argument parsing in Go (by alexflint)
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| commando | go-arg | |
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| 1 | 6 | |
| 136 | 1,857 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 4.4 | |
| over 2 years ago | 22 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
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.
go-arg
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-arg.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
- Go-Arg: Struct-based argument parsing in Go
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Build a GitHub Issues Reporter for failing Kubernetes Apps with Botkube Plugins
Under the hood, the pluginx.ParseCommand method uses go-arg.
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
I’ve used multiple libraries over the last two years but less is more and go-arg feels like something that would be in the stdlib: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg
- Libraries you use most of your projects?
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Best practice for configuring secrets
I use this: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg and setting defaults for my local environment. So no need to keep a .env file.
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Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
I personally swear by the go-arg package, as i prefer its library-not-framework approach.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing commando and go-arg you can also consider the following projects:
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks
ezcli - ✨ Minimal Go package for create CLI tools in <10 second!
flag - Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand
ttrpc - GRPC for low-memory environments
ptr - Contains functions for simplified creation of pointers from constants of basic types
go-flags - go command line option parser
kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go
viper - Go configuration with fangs
vilmos - Official vilmos visual language interpreter!
docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.