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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

Installing with Homebrew and Testing

Since the GoReleaser job ran successfully, we should be able to install the CLI application with Homebrew. Let’s begin by telling Homebrew to tap the repository we’ve created for the formula:

brew tap marianina8/audiofile

You should see the following output generated from the previous command:

==> Tapping marianina8/audiofile
Cloning into '/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/marianina8/homebrew-audiofile'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 6, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 0), reused 3 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Tapped 1 formula (13 files, 6.3KB).

As we know, tapping the repository adds to the list of Homebrew formulas to install. Next, let’s try installing the audiofile CLI:

brew install marianina8/audiofile/audiofile

You should see the following output generated for the installation...