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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

You're reading from   Building Modern CLI Applications in Go Develop next-level CLIs to improve user experience, increase platform usage, and maximize production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611654
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with a Solid Foundation
2. Chapter 1: Understanding CLI Standards FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Structuring Go Code for CLI Applications 4. Chapter 3: Building an Audio Metadata CLI 5. Chapter 4: Popular Frameworks for Building CLIs 6. Part 2: The Ins and Outs of a CLI
7. Chapter 5: Defining the Command-Line Process 8. Chapter 6: Calling External Processes and Handling Errors and Timeouts 9. Chapter 7: Developing for Different Platforms 10. Part 3: Interactivity and Empathic Driven Design
11. Chapter 8: Building for Humans versus Machines 12. Chapter 9: The Empathic Side of Development 13. Chapter 10: Interactivity with Prompts and Terminal Dashboards 14. Part 4: Building and Distributing for Different Platforms
15. Chapter 11: Custom Builds and Testing CLI Commands 16. Chapter 12: Cross-Compilation across Different Platforms 17. Chapter 13: Using Containers for Distribution 18. Chapter 14: Publishing Your Go Binary as a Homebrew Formula with GoReleaser 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned specific steps to make your command-line application more empathetic. From error handling, debug and traceback information, effortless bug submission, and empathic advocacy in technical communication, you have learned the technical and empathic skills to apply within your application.

Errors can now be rewritten in color to jump out of the screen and decorated with additional information that provides the user information on exactly where an error has occurred and potentially what they may need to do to reach a resolution. When an error seems unresolvable, the user can then run the same command using the --verbose flag and view the detail logs, which might contain server requests and responses necessary to trace more specifically where an error may be happening, down to the line of code.

If a bug is encountered, the addition of a new bug command allows the user to spawn a new browser straight from their terminal, opening straight to a...

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