Cobra Alternatives

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  1. go

    2,261 cobra VS go

    The Go programming language

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  3. kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  4. Hugo

    590 cobra VS Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  5. terraform

    Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  6. cli

    277 cobra VS cli

    GitHub’s official command line tool

  7. Gin

    167 cobra VS Gin

    Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

  8. Echo

    133 cobra VS Echo

    High performance, minimalist Go web framework

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. bubbletea

    A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

  11. chi

    108 cobra VS chi

    lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

  12. TinyGo

    106 cobra VS TinyGo

    Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

  13. viper

    78 cobra VS viper

    Go configuration with fangs

  14. Testify

    72 cobra VS Testify

    A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

  15. goreleaser

    Release engineering, simplified

  16. cli-guidelines

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

  17. logrus

    42 cobra VS logrus

    Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

  18. zerolog

    40 cobra VS zerolog

    Zero Allocation JSON Logger

  19. urfave/cli

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

  20. pflag

    15 cobra VS pflag

    Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

  21. kong

    11 cobra VS kong

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

  22. go-flags

    go command line option parser

  23. SaaSHub

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  • Ian Lance Taylor of the Go Team Leaves Google
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2025
    Very cool about the SEA feature, I haven't seen that before. Thanks for sharing that

    This is sort of the worst case comparison, but a hello world program in go is 1.5 MiB and the SEA node equivalent is 109 MiB. Obviously as your program becomes more complex that fixed overhead becomes less of an issue but I think it's still a useful comparison.

    For the packages, the thing I prefer even more so is writing an application with 0 dependencies at all. net/http, net/http/pprof, flag, pprof, etc are all built in and high quality and you can easily build clis/servers with them. Even a really full featured CLI builder package like cobra has just a few transitive deps and gorilla/mux has none: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/go.sum https://github.com/gorilla/mux/blob/main/go.mod

    If I compare that with express.js or commander its a very different story (though, in fairness to commander, they all seem to be dev deps).

    I don't think it's bad per se to have deps, just a different culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935067 kinda beat that horse already though

  • 🥳 We built the cli of our dreams to send sms ❣️
    9 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2025
    Then, I wanted to bring my team to the Go experience at the office as sometimes we need to deliver apps to systems on which we don't want or can't install new softwares : so delivering a static binary thanks to Go and goreleaser seemed a good option for effortless cross-compilation... and of course build the best possible UX thanks to Cobra.
  • argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2025
    Cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra uses https://github.com/spf13/pflag, which supports GNU style flags. Cobra has been developed for many years now and has a ton of additional features, like automatically generating the autocompletions and has tons of unit tests.

    I'd just use cobra.

  • Show HN: Protostar – A CLI Prototyping Tool
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2025
    You did a really great job describing the project and documenting it in the README. Congrats. The project looks super clean and professional.

    That being said, TBH I don't see any real scenario where I would "prototype a CLI". Unlike a GUI where elements can be placed in some places vs others, a CLI is a CLI.

    For any developer, it would probably take less time to write it directly using one of the libraries listed here : https://bloomberg.github.io/stricli/blog/intro (TS/JS) or https://github.com/spf13/cobra (Go) with stub implementations for commands.

    The main problem for me is that defining the CLI in a JSON file lacks all the flexibility of code (reusability, etc.).

  • Create a Server Driven CLI from your REST API
    8 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2025
    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.
  • ⏳GitHub Copilot 1-Day Build Challenge : eol, a tiny Go client to manage eols
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2025
    I really enjoyed a lot the resulting prototype I manage to get within almost 2 hours and it gave me the confirmation that I wanted to spend more time to make a clean code and lear more about Go best practices and probably use Cobra.dev (A Framework for Modern CLI Apps in Go) to learn while building something fun yet useful.
  • Top 5 Go Libraries Every Backend Developer Should Know
    6 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2025
    4. Cobra
  • Show HN: CREV – A Go-based CLI tool for AI code reviews and codebase exports
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2024
    - Terminal-Based Workflow: CREV is a CLI tool, removing the need to switch between your editor and the browser.

    I have written the CREV CLI tool in Go as I was interested in learning the language and I heard many good things about it’s efficiency and speed. I used https://github.com/spf13/cobra to manage the CLI commands and [Viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper) for handling configurations. This is the first project I have done with Go but I find the language interesting and the Go routines also help with reading in your entire codebase. For the code reviews themselves I use google cloud functions which invoke GPT-4o (am also planning to add Claude 3.5 and GPT-o1).

    I’d love to hear your feedback—whether it’s ideas for new features or reasons why you believe this tool is useful or useless to you. I am using it daily so it at least solved my own problem :)

  • Technical Deep Dive: How We Built the Pizza CLI Using Go and Cobra
    7 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2024
    The Pizza CLI is a Go command-line tool that leverages several standard libraries. Go’s simplicity, speed, and systems programming focus make it an ideal choice for building CLIs. At its core, the Pizza-CLI uses spf13/cobra, a CLI bootstrapping library in Go, to organize and manage the entire tree of commands.
  • Developing CLIs
    3 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2024
    As we started to flesh out our CLI, we also wanted to test edge cases and detect regressions. I surveyed public cobra/bubbletea based CLIs to look for ideas, and found frustratingly few tests. Then we stumbled upon Charm's teatest which gave us a starting point.
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