Ask HN: What do you use to make CLIs?

• cobra

  129 35,985 7.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

[2]: https://cobra.dev

• clap-rs

  154 13,288 9.6 Rust

  A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

  

• 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.

  

• command_help

  8 93 0.0 Shell

  :information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages

I use a lot of CLI tools, but haven't written many for myself. Mostly, aliases/functions and some scripts in Bash/Python.

Extract details for command options from man/help: https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help/blob/master/c...

cut-like syntax for field manipulations with regexp, negative indexing, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut/blob/main/rcut

simple calculator using python syntax: https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/ca...

• regexp-cut

  4 15 1.8 Shell

  Use awk to provide cut like syntax for field extraction

I use a lot of CLI tools, but haven't written many for myself. Mostly, aliases/functions and some scripts in Bash/Python.

Extract details for command options from man/help: https://github.com/learnbyexample/command_help/blob/master/c...

cut-like syntax for field manipulations with regexp, negative indexing, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/regexp-cut/blob/main/rcut

simple calculator using python syntax: https://learnbyexample.github.io/practice_python_projects/ca...

• matano

  38 1,354 7.0 Rust

  Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

  

Oclif is pretty nice for NodeJS, we use it for https://github.com/matanolabs/matano . https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea looks really beautiful, if you use Go.

• bubbletea

  115 23,982 8.8 Go

  A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

  

Oclif is pretty nice for NodeJS, we use it for https://github.com/matanolabs/matano . https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea looks really beautiful, if you use Go.

• fx

  6 18 0.0 C++

  Discontinued fx is a workspace tool manager. It allows you to create consistent, discoverable, language-neutral and developer friendly command line tools. (by jathu)

I made fx at Flexport, which hosted many of our CLI tools.

I liked it a lot so I made one for myself when I left: https://github.com/jathu/fx

fx is a workspace tool manager. It allows you to create consistent, discoverable, language-neutral and developer friendly command line tools.

• 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.

  

• typer

  87 14,347 8.7 Python

  Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

• keygen-cli

  2 15 6.0 Go

  Official command line tool for publishing releases to Keygen's distribution API.

  

I use Go and Cobra for my business’s CLI [0]. I like it. I’ve also used Thor in the past, for Ruby CLIs. And a simple option parser for node CLIs.

[0]: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-cli

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