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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

Cross-Compilation across Different Platforms

This chapter introduces the user to cross-compilation, a powerful feature of Go, across different platforms. While build automation tools exist, understanding how to cross-compile provides essential knowledge for debugging and customization when necessary. This chapter will explain the different operating systems and architectures that Go can compile and how to determine which is needed. After Go is installed in your environment, there is a command, go env, with which you can see all the Go-related environment variables. We will discuss the two major ones used for building: GOOS and GOARCH.

We will give examples of how to build or install an application for each major operating system: Linux, macOS, and Windows. You will learn how to determine the Go operating system and architecture settings based on your environment and the available architectures for each major operating system.

This chapter ends with an example script to automate...

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