Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?

• cobra

  129 35,891 7.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

I've used both cobra and cli, both are good. cli may be, IMO, a bit "lighter", not speed-wise (maybe it's different, but I haven't noticed), but it's not as feature-rich as cobra, but it's excellent.

• urfave/cli

  26 21,595 8.8 Go

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

  

I've used both cobra and cli, both are good. cli may be, IMO, a bit "lighter", not speed-wise (maybe it's different, but I haven't noticed), but it's not as feature-rich as cobra, but it's excellent.

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• kong

  9 1,813 7.6 Go

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

I switched all from viper to kong.

• commando

  1 136 0.0 Go

  An easy-to-use command-line application builder. (by thatisuday)

At least for smaller apps, I like commando because it's light in terms of dependencies, it's straight-forward to use and parses getopt style parameters.

• go-arg

  6 1,861 4.4 Go

  Struct-based argument parsing in Go

I personally swear by the go-arg package, as i prefer its library-not-framework approach.

• viper

  74 25,756 8.8 Go

  Go configuration with fangs

Personally, I went with Cobra and Viper because they are used in so many big tools.

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