In this series, we will be building a command line application with Cobra, Viper, and Bubbletea called Rekall or rkl for short. Along the way, we wi

Charming Cobras with Bubbletea - Part 1

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In this series, we will be building a command line application with Cobra, Viper, and Bubbletea called Rekall or rkl for short. Along the way, we will be walking through how to use the above tools and show how they can be leveraged together to create power command line tools.

Part 1 of this series will focus on getting a command structure defined and defining a few terminal UI styles that we will leverage to customize our command line application. We will largely focus on how these packages can be used together. If you would like to learn more about any of these packages, I would highly recommend starting with the documentation they provide, it is a fantastic starting place!

rkl is an application that I have had floating around for a few years. Its purpose is to help me remember and manage easily forgotten information from the cli. For me, this includes past commands, todos, and other various notes. As time goes on, I'm sure the responsibility of rkl will have to grow.

Cobra is a library providing a simple package to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. Notable features include subcommand support, automatic help generation, flag inheritance, and other customizable components.