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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

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Now that the configuration files have been set up for GoReleaser and GitHub Actions, and the publisher tokens to give access to make changes to the repositories are also created and shared, we are ready to trigger a release with the next step of the workflow: tag and push the code. Before we do so, let’s take a step back and discuss what happens when you trigger the goReleaser job:

  • Preparation: GoReleaser checks the configuration files, validates the environment, and sets up the necessary environment variables
  • Building: Builds the Go binary and compiles it for multiple platforms (such as Windows, Linux, and macOS)
  • Versioning: Generates a new version number based on the existing version and the user’s configuration
  • Creating the release artifacts: Generates the release artifacts, such as tarballs, deb/rpm packages, and zip files for each platform
  • Creating a Git tag: Creates a new Git tag for the release, which is used to reference...
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