awesome-cli

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A curated list of awesome resources for building immersive CLI experiences.

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CLI toolkit

A curated list of resources and tools for building robust and user-friendly Command Line Interfaces (CLI) applications.

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forks: 17
watching: 9
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Animation

ora
Elegant terminal spinner
9.2Kalmost 2 years
progress-string
Progress bar to be placed anywhere
95over 8 years
single-line-log
Keep writing to the same line in the terminal
2104 years

Colorize

chalk
Terminal string styling done right
22K2 years
chalk-animation
Colorful animations in terminal output
2.1Kalmost 4 years
gradient-string
Beautiful color gradients in terminal output
1.1Kalmost 2 years
boxen
Create boxes in the terminal
1.6K2 years
sparkly
Generate sparklines
424almost 5 years

Input

qoa
Minimal interactive command-line prompts
2K2 years
prompts
Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive prompts
8.9K2 years
ansi-diff-stream
A diff friendly cli input module
108over 8 years
email-prompt
CLI email prompt featuring autocompletion and validation
276over 3 years

Output

prettycli
Pretty print messages on the terminal
48over 8 years
fmt-obj
Stringifies any JavaScript object in your console for CLI inspection
444over 9 years
beauty-error
Getting a beauty error. Oriented for well printed errors
6almost 3 years
terminal-link
Create clickable links in the terminal
624over 3 years
jsome
Pretty format JSON on terminal
244almost 3 years
term-img
Display images in iTerm
3102 years
neat-log
Logger for stateful Command Line Applications
645 years
cli-table3
Pretty unicode tables for the command line
544almost 2 years

Framework

ink
React for interactive command-line apps
27.4Kalmost 2 years

Helpful

meow
CLI app helper
3.6Kover 2 years
update-notifier
Update notifications for your CLI app
1.8Kalmost 2 years
signal-exit
When you want to fire an event no matter how a process exits
189almost 3 years
clipboardy
Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)
1.8Kalmost 3 years
indent-string
Indent each line in a string
112over 4 years

Lovely Commands

bat
A cat(1) clone with wings
50.1Kalmost 2 years
bore
Making tunnels to localhost
8.7Kalmost 2 years
clipboard
Access the system clipboard (copy/paste)
496almost 3 years
diff-so-fancy
Good-lookin' diffs with diff-highlight and more
17.4K2 years
dua
Interactive disk usage
4.2Kalmost 2 years
entrp
Run arbitrary commands when files change ( )
eza
A modern replacement for
12.9Kalmost 2 years
dog
Command-line DNS client alternative to
6.2Kover 2 years
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to
34.5Kalmost 2 years
fx
Command-line JSON processing tool
19.1K2 years
fzf
A command-line fuzzy finder
66.2Kalmost 2 years
gnomon
Perfect for analyze quickly logs
930almost 10 years
htop
htop is an interactive
5.9Kalmost 6 years
httpstat
statistics made simple
6K3 years
hub
It helps you win at git
22.9Kover 2 years
hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool
23.3Kalmost 2 years
jnv
Interactive JSON filter using jq
5.1Kalmost 2 years
gron
Make JSON greppable
13.9Kalmost 2 years
glow
Render markdown on the CLI
16.5Kalmost 2 years
peco
Simplistic interactive filtering tool
7.7Kover 2 years
pup
Parsing HTML at the command line
8.2Kover 2 years
pv
Monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline
222over 4 years
share
Quickly share files from your command line
369over 7 years
spot
Tiny search utility
932almost 3 years
zoxide
A smarter cd command. Works on all major shells
23.4Kalmost 2 years

Bibliography

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