Awesome CLI

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

Contents

• Animation
• Colorize
• Input
• Output
• Framework
• Helpful
• Lovely Commands
• Bibliography

Animation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ink - React for interactive command-line apps.

Helpful

• 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

• 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.
• jq - Command-line JSON processor. 1
• 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.