Top 23 Go Standard CLI Projects

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• cobra

  134 37,478 7.3 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  Project mention: Developing CLIs | dev.to | 2024-08-12

  As we started to flesh out our CLI, we also wanted to test edge cases and detect regressions. I surveyed public cobra/bubbletea based CLIs to look for ideas, and found frustratingly few tests. Then we stumbled upon Charm's teatest which gave us a starting point.

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• urfave/cli

  26 22,140 8.9 Go

  A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)

  

• elvish

  47 5,610 9.5 Go

  Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

  

  Project mention: How to write a programming language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-30

  I gave a talk about the design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrl9foNXdgM

  As the sibling comment mentioned, you can find documentation on Elvish itself on the website https://elv.sh. There are tutorials and (not 100% but fairly complete) reference documents.

• kingpin

  2 3,475 4.9 Go

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

• The Platinum Searcher

  2 2,798 0.0 Go

  A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

• Dnote

  4 2,744 4.9 Go

  A simple command line notebook for programmers

  

• go-flags

  9 2,552 6.5 Go

  go command line option parser

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• pflag

  13 2,377 0.0 Go

  Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

• readline

  9 2,076 0.0 Go

  Readline is a pure go(golang) implementation for GNU-Readline kind library

• kong

  9 2,058 7.4 Go

  Kong is a command-line parser for Go (by alecthomas)

• docopt.go

  4 1,427 0.0 Go

  A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.

  

  Project mention: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-07

• liner

  0 1,037 0.0 Go

  Pure Go line editor with history, inspired by linenoise

• complete

  1 925 0.0 Go

  bash completion written in go + bash completion for go command

• cli-init

  0 922 0.0 Go

  The easy way to build Golang command-line application.

• mow.cli

  2 871 0.0 Go

  A versatile library for building CLI applications in Go

• flaggy

  1 854 0.0 Go

  Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.

• carapace-bin

  6 834 9.7 Go

  multi-shell multi-command argument completer

  

  Project mention: FLaNK AI Weekly for 29 April 2024 | dev.to | 2024-04-29

• cli

  0 730 1.4 Go

  CLI - A package for building command line app with go (by mkideal)

• argparse

  2 598 0.0 Go

  Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks (by akamensky)

• box-cli-maker

  9 527 1.8 Go

  Make Highly Customized Boxes for CLI

  Project mention: Show HN: Box CLI Maker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-04

• carapace

  1 309 8.5 Go

  command argument completion generator for spf13/cobra

  

• 1build

  0 223 0.0 Go

  Frictionless way of managing project-specific commands

• wmenu

  1 216 6.3 Go

  An easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.

• SaaSHub

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• Build your own curl in Golang

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• Show HN: Box CLI Maker

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024

• Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024

• Carapace-bin: multi-shell multi-command argument completer

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023

• How to read Cobra command line flag

  1 project | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2023
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