Building Command Line Tools with Golang
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This document discusses using Golang for building command line tools. It begins with introductions and background on the speaker and their company Innovatube. Golang is described as being used for non-HTML heavy web development, API servers, and mobile app backends. Common use cases for Golang include web services, mobile apps, game backends, daemons/services, and command line tools. Several popular command line tools built with Golang are listed, and libraries for building CLI tools in Golang are provided. The document demonstrates using the gcli library to generate a skeleton for a Golang CLI tool. It concludes with some tips for coloring text and building dashboards in Golang CLI tools.
![Golang Use Cases
Web Services
Mobile Applications ( Android [ver 1.4~] / iOS [ver 1.5~])
Game Backend
Daemon / Service
Command Line Tools](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/golangcommandlineforupload-160413000000/85/Building-Command-Line-Tools-with-Golang-5-320.jpg)
Building Command Line Tools with Golang
- 1. Building Command Line Tools with Golang Takaaki Mizuno Innovatube TechTalk #3
- 2. Who Am I Takaaki Mizuno CEO of Innovatube Solutions 19 years experience as software developer 34 years experience in coding Still coding Based in Singapore Japanese born in Japan Published 20+ technical books in Japan
- 4. Golang at Innovatube We selected 2 primary languages for web/mobile-app back-end development. PHP Golang Golang is used for non-HTML-Heavy Web development API Server for Mobile Apps Use React on Frontend and backend system only returns structured data such as JSON
- 5. Golang Use Cases Web Services Mobile Applications ( Android [ver 1.4~] / iOS [ver 1.5~]) Game Backend Daemon / Service Command Line Tools
- 6. Golang and Command Line Tools
- 7. Which Language Are You Using For Writing Command Line Tools ? Node.js Java Python Ruby C++ Golang
- 8. Which language should we use for command line tools? It depends on the use case of the tool. If the tool is dedicated for specific languages/framework, use that languages. Ruby for rubygems PHP for composer Node.js for front-end task runners ( gulp / grunt ) It the tool is a part of a project, you should use same language Java for Java project Python for Python project Other cases Use Golang
- 9. Benefit for Command Line Tools Single Binary Cross Platform ( Can support Windows easily ) No run-time dependencies Concurrency
- 10. Many famous “command line” tools are written in Golang docker Terraform ( By Hashicorp) hub ( by GitHub )
- 11. Write command line tools in Golang
- 12. Many Libraries You Can Use Standard CLI Libraries for building standard or basic Command Line applications cli - A feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang tag cli-init - The easy way to start building Golang command line application. climax - An alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions codegangsta/cli - A small package for building command line apps in Go. docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile. go-flags - go command line option parser kingpin - A command line and flag parser supporting sub commands. liner - A Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces. mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces. mow.cli - A Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation. From: Awesome-go ( https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#command-line )
- 13. You can use “gcli” It generates a skeleton (codes and its directory structure) you need to start building Command Line Interface (CLI) tool https://github.com/tcnksm/gcli
- 14. Easy To Use gcli new -command=init -command=get -owner=takaaki-mizuno awesomecommand % awesomecommand init
- 15. DEMO
- 16. Support 4 CLI libraries +-----------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | NAME | COMMAND | URL | +-----------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | mitchellh_cli | * | https://github.com/mitchellh/cli | | codegangsta_cli | * | https://github.com/codegangsta/cli | | go_cmd | * | https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/go | | flag | | https://golang.org/pkg/flag/ | +-----------------+---------+-----------------------------------------------------+ % gcli list
- 17. Some Tips For Golang ( command line tools )
- 18. Text Colorize mgutz/ansi & mattn/go-colorable mgutz/ansi is a library to create ANSI colored strings and codes mattn/go-colorable is an io.Writer wrapper to support Windows DOS prompt colorize
- 19. Building Dashboard gizak/termui Can build Text Base Dashboard with GUI Building- Like APIs
- 20. Happy Coding!
- 21. We are Hiring! You want to write Golang ? Join us ! http://innovatube.com/
- 22. Q & A