What are your preferred guides to write cool command line app?

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  • nodejs-cli-apps-best-practices

    The largest Node.js CLI Apps best practices list ✨

  • Mine are: an article - https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/10-design-principles-for-delightful-clis/ node cli apps best practices - https://github.com/lirantal/nodejs-cli-apps-best-practices

  • cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  • Either vanilla bash (plenty of guides out there) or golang with cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra

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  • cli-guidelines

    A guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

  • I like this language-agnostic set of guidelines quite a lot: https://clig.dev/

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