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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

By : Marian Montagnino
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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

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)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with a Solid Foundation
6
Part 2: The Ins and Outs of a CLI
10
Part 3: Interactivity and Empathic Driven Design
14
Part 4: Building and Distributing for Different Platforms

GoReleaser workflow

Releasing software may be a lengthy and challenging process, particularly for projects with several dependencies and platforms. In addition to saving time, automating the release process lowers the possibility of human error and guarantees reliable and effective releases. GoReleaser is a popular choice for automating the release process for Go developers. However, there are also other choices, such as CircleCI, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions, each of which has particular advantages and features. In this section, we’ll examine the advantages of automating the release procedure and look in more detail at a few of these choices, specifically GoReleaser and GitHub Actions.

When compared to alternatives, GoReleaser stands out for the following reasons:

  • Easy to use: Setup is simple and intuitive, making it easy for developers to get started with release automation. Their CLI quickly initializes a repository with a default configuration that can often...