Awesome

Awesome CLI

A curated list of things related with Command Line Interfaces (CLI).

Contents

Animation
Colorize
Input
Output
Framework
Helpful
Lovely Commands
Bibliography

Animation

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ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
progress-string - Progress bar to be placed anywhere.
single-line-log - Keep writing to the same line in the terminal.

Colorize

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chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
chalk-animation - Colorful animations in terminal output.
gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
sparkly - Generate sparklines.

Input

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qoa - Minimal interactive command-line prompts.
prompts - Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive prompts.
ansi-diff-stream - A diff friendly cli input module.
email-prompt - CLI email prompt featuring autocompletion and validation.

Output

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prettycli - Pretty print messages on the terminal.
fmt-obj - Stringifies any JavaScript object in your console for CLI inspection.
beauty-error - Getting a beauty error. Oriented for well printed errors.
terminal-link - Create clickable links in the terminal.
jsome - Pretty format JSON on terminal.
term-img - Display images in iTerm.
neat-log - Logger for stateful Command Line Applications.
cli-table3 - Pretty unicode tables for the command line.

Framework

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ink - React for interactive command-line apps.

Helpful

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meow - CLI app helper.
update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.
signal-exit - When you want to fire an event no matter how a process exits.
clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
indent-string - Indent each line in a string.

Lovely Commands

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bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
bore - Making tunnels to localhost
clipboard - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
diff-so-fancy - Good-lookin' diffs with diff-highlight and more.
dua - Interactive disk usage.
entrp - Run arbitrary commands when files change (alternative).
exa - A modern replacement for ls.
dog - Command-line DNS client alternative to dig.
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
fx - Command-line JSON processing tool.
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder.
gnomon - Perfect for analyze quickly logs.
htop - htop is an interactive top.
httpstat - curl statistics made simple.
hub - It helps you win at git.
hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
jnv - Interactive JSON filter using jq.
gron - Make JSON greppable.
glow - Render markdown on the CLI.
peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool.
pup - Parsing HTML at the command line.
pv - Monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
share - Quickly share files from your command line.
spot - Tiny search utility.
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Works on all major shells.

Bibliography

12 Factor CLI Apps - 12 principles to build good CLI interfaces.