Ask HN: What libraries does go have for building interactive shells?

• cobra

  129 35,891 7.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.

So far this is what I've found.

https://github.com/desertbit/grumble

https://github.com/spf13/cobra

https://github.com/urfave/cli

https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.

• grumble

  3 516 0.0 Go

  A powerful modern CLI and SHELL

  

I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.

So far this is what I've found.

https://github.com/desertbit/grumble

https://github.com/spf13/cobra

https://github.com/urfave/cli

https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.

• WorkOS

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• urfave/cli

  26 21,595 8.8 Go

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

  

I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.

So far this is what I've found.

https://github.com/desertbit/grumble

https://github.com/spf13/cobra

https://github.com/urfave/cli

https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.

• ishell

  2 1,630 0.0 Go

  Library for creating interactive cli applications.

I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.

So far this is what I've found.

https://github.com/desertbit/grumble

https://github.com/spf13/cobra

https://github.com/urfave/cli

https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell

I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.

• readline

  9 2,027 0.0 Go

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

Do you want to build an interactive shell or a cli tool? For a custom shell I have used https://github.com/chzyer/readline before, but I did not work on it a lot.

I also wanted custom completions based on context and this readline implementation was decent for that.

• InfluxDB

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