Awesome CLI DX

A curated list of awesome CLI's pattern for building smooth experiences.

NOTE: Check awesome-cli for tooling about implemented them.

User Onboarding

Inputs confirmation

Autocompletion

Linting Configuration Files

Extra information

Lovely Commands

• bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
• diff-so-fancy – Good-lookin' diffs with diff-highlight and more.
• entrp – Run arbitrary commands when files change.
• gnomon – Perfect for analyze quickly logs
• htop – htop is an interactive top.
• hub – hub helps you win at git.
• jq – Command-line JSON processor. 1
• peco – Simplistic interactive filtering tool.
• pup – command line tool for processing HTML. 1
• share – Quickly share files from your command line.
• clipboard – Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
• jsonresume – Cli tool to easily setup a new resume.
• git-authors – Detects project contributors and add it into package.json.
• regexgen – Generates regular expressions that match a set of strings.
• pv – Monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
• fx – Command-line JSON processing tool.
• spot – Tiny search utility.
• share – Quickly share files from your command line.

Bibliography

• 12 Factor CLI Apps.