kn0w0ne / awesome-cli

A curated list of awesome resources for building immersive CLI experiences.

Awesome CLI

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

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.

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.
• clipboard – Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
• diff-so-fancy – Good-lookin' diffs with diff-highlight and more.
• entrp – Run arbitrary commands when files change (alternative).
• exa – A modern replacement for ls.
• fd – A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• fx – Command-line JSON processing tool.
• gnomon – Perfect for analyze quickly logs
• htop – htop is an interactive top.
• httpstat – curl statistics made simple
• hub – hub helps you win at git.
• hyperfine – A command-line benchmarking tool.
• jq – Command-line JSON processor. 1
• mdcat – cat for markdown.
• ncdu – Interactive disk usage.
• peco – Simplistic interactive filtering tool.
• pv – Monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
• share – Quickly share files from your command line.
• spot – Tiny search utility.
• z – The definity directory jumper.

Bibliography

• 12 Factor CLI Apps.