cligen

cligen

A CLI tool to generate a CLI app scaffold with sane defaults and complete github CI/CD so you can focus on building the app rather than the boilerplate.

Why did I make this?

I found myself writing quite a few cli tools, and it was always the same boilerplate over and over again, so I decided to create a tool to generate it for me. I could use an LLM to generate a lot of the golang code, but I also wanted to make sure I had an opinionated and tested scaffold around building and releasing the app. So I've put together a tool that does it all for me.

With this I can skip all the repetitive stuff and get straight into building the app.

I hope that you find it useful!

Included

• Opinionated CLI app scaffold
• Github Actions
• Makefile
• Golangci-lint
• Homebrew tap
• Github release
• Github release notes
• Gitleaks secret scanning
• Dependency license review
• Demo generator using VHS

Quickstart

Install

MacOS / Linux with Homebrew

brew install twinsnes/tap/cligen

MacOS / Linux / Windows with Binary Download

Download the latest release from the releases page and add it to your path.

From source with Go

Clone the repository and run make build to build the binary.

Usage

To generate a new CLI app, run the following command in the location you want to generate the app:

cligen new

Follow the prompts to generate the app, and then open the generated README file for instructions on what to do next.

TODO

• Add default app name from folder name
• Add default module name from git remote