Cobra is a library for creating powerful modern CLI applications.
Cobra is used in many Go projects such as Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI to name a few.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Easy subcommand-based CLIs: app server, app fetch, etc.
- Fully POSIX-compliant flags (including short & long versions)
- Nested subcommands
- Global, local and cascading flags
- Intelligent suggestions (app srver… did you mean app server?)
- Automatic help generation for commands and flags
- Grouping help for subcommands
- Automatic help flag recognition of -h, –help, etc.
- Automatically generated shell autocomplete for your application (bash, zsh, fish, powershell)
- Automatically generated man pages for your application
- Command aliases so you can change things without breaking them
- The flexibility to define your own help, usage, etc.
- Optional seamless integration with viper for 12-factor apps
Website: github.com/spf13/cobra
Support:
Developer: Steve Francia
License: Apache License 2.0
Cobra is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Tcell | Low-level Go package for portable terminal screen handling and input |
| PTerm | Go library for styled output, progress displays, and interactive prompts |
| Huh? | Go library for elegant, accessible interactive forms and prompts |
| Cobra | Library for creating powerful modern CLI applications |
| Bubbles | Reusable components for composing polished Bubble Tea applications |
| go-tui | Declarative toolkit for building interactive terminal applications |
| cview | Terminal-based user interface toolkit (fork of tview) |
| gotui | Modern Go library for creating rich interactive terminal interfaces |
| Phoenix | High-performance toolkit for building responsive terminal interfaces |
| Lip Gloss | Style definitions for nice terminal layouts |
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