Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?

• cobra

  129 35,891 7.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

Cobra and Viper.

• urfave/cli

  26 21,595 8.8 Go

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

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• viper

  74 25,756 8.8 Go

  Go configuration with fangs

Cobra and Viper.

• bubbletea

  115 23,982 8.8 Go

  A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

  

Don't forget https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea and the rest of the https://charm.sh suite!

• kong

  9 1,813 7.6 Go

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

I prefer https://github.com/alecthomas/kong these days

• warg

  7 13 7.5 Go

  Declarative and Intuitive Command Line Apps with Go

I wrote my own! https://github.com/bbkane/warg/

• ff

  7 1,305 6.3 Go

  Flags-first package for configuration

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pflag

  13 2,307 0.0 Go

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

I realy enjoyed the patched version from spf13 with "--" support https://github.com/spf13/pflag

• go-flags

  9 2,509 0.0 Go

  go command line option parser

https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags provides a pretty neat way to specify flags and handle commands. Not so much extensible as cobra, but good enough for small cli tools

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