Create a Server Driven CLI from your REST API

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  1. babashka

    Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

    This article is written by Rahul Dé, a VP of > Site Reliability Engineering at Citi and creator/maintainer of popular tools > like babashka, > bob, and now > climate. All opinions expressed are > his own.

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  3. restish

    Restish is a CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features built-in

    Climate allows the server to influence the CLI behaviour by using OpenAPI's extensions. This is the secret of Climate's dynamism. Influenced by some of the ideas behind restish it uses the following extensions as of now:

  4. bob

    This is what CI/CD should've been. (by bob-cd)

    This article is written by Rahul Dé, a VP of > Site Reliability Engineering at Citi and creator/maintainer of popular tools > like babashka, > bob, and now > climate. All opinions expressed are > his own.

  5. climate

    The sidekick for your CLIs powered by OpenAPI (by lispyclouds)

    This article is written by Rahul Dé, a VP of > Site Reliability Engineering at Citi and creator/maintainer of popular tools > like babashka, > bob, and now > climate. All opinions expressed are > his own.

  6. cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

    Spec duplication: the paths, the schemas etc need to be replicated on the client side again. eg when using the popular Cobra lib for Go, one must tell it all the possible types beforehand.

  7. wendy

    Bob's command centre and the reference CLI/TUI

    Checkout Wendy as a proper example of a project built with Climate.

  8. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  9. clojure

    The Clojure programming language

    Another project of mine Bob can be seen as an example of spec-first design. All its tooling follow that idea and its CLI inspired Climate. A lot of Bob uses Clojure a language that I cherish and who's ideas make me think better in every other place too.

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