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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804611654

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Linux

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Application Development

Author (1):

Marian Montagnino

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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Part 3: Interactivity and Empathic Driven Design

This part is about how to develop a more user-friendly command-line interface (CLI) by considering the end user’s perspective. It covers topics such as building for humans versus machines, using ASCII art to improve information density, and ensuring consistency in flag names and arguments. The section also emphasizes the importance of empathy in CLI development, including rewriting errors in a user-friendly way, providing detailed logging, and creating man pages and usage examples. Additionally, the benefits of interactivity through prompts and terminal dashboards are discussed, with examples of how to build user prompts and dashboards using the Termdash library.

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Chapter 8, Building for Humans Versus Machines
Chapter 9, The Empathic Side of Development
Chapter 10, Interactivity with Prompts and Terminal Dashboards

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