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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

By : Marian Montagnino
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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

4.7 (14)
By: Marian Montagnino

Overview of this book

Although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are intuitive and user-friendly, nothing beats a command-line interface (CLI) when it comes to productivity. Many organizations settle for a GUI without searching for alternatives that offer better accessibility and functionality. If this describes your organization, then pick up this book and get them to rethink that decision. Building Modern CLI Applications in Go will help you achieve an interface that rivals a GUI in elegance yet surpasses it in high-performance execution. Through its practical, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn everything you need to harness the power and simplicity of the Go language to build CLI applications that revolutionize the way you work. After a primer on CLI standards and Go, you’ll be launched into tool design and proper framework use for true development proficiency. The book then moves on to all things CLI, helping you master everything from arguments and flags to errors and API calls. Later, you’ll dive into the nuances of empathic development so that you can ensure the best UX possible, before you finish up with build tags, cross-compilation, and container-based distribution. By the end of this UX book, you’ll be fully equipped to take the performance and flexibility of your organization’s applications to the next level.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with a Solid Foundation
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Part 2: The Ins and Outs of a CLI
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Part 3: Interactivity and Empathic Driven Design
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Part 4: Building and Distributing for Different Platforms

Summary

In this chapter, you learned what build tags are and how to use them for different purposes. Build tags can be used for generating builds of different levels, separating our specific tests, or adding debug features. You also learned how to generate builds with the build tags that you added to the top of your files and how to utilize the Boolean logic of tags to quickly determine whether files will or won’t be included.

You also learned how to test your Cobra CLI commands with Golang’s default testing package. Some necessary tools were also included, such as learning how to mock an HTTP client. Together with the build tags, you can now not only build targeted applications with tags but also run tests with the same tags to target specific tests. In the next chapter, Chapter 12, Cross-Compilation Across Different Platforms, we will learn how to use these tags and compile for the different major operating systems: darwin, linux, and windows.

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