awesome-cli

A curated list of awesome resources for building immersive CLI experiences.
https://github.com/Kikobeats/awesome-cli

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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.

Bibliography

12 Factor CLI Apps - 12 principles to build good CLI interfaces.

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.

Framework

ink - React for interactive command-line apps.

Helpful

signal-exit - When you want to fire an event no matter how a process exits.
clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
meow - CLI app helper.
indent-string - Indent each line in a string.
update-notifier - Update notifications for your CLI app.

Input

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.
qoa - Minimal interactive command-line prompts.

Lovely Commands

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
bore - Making tunnels to localhost
clipboard - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste).
dua - Interactive disk usage.
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.
hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
jnv - Interactive JSON filter using jq.
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.
entrp - Run arbitrary commands when files change (alternative).
eza - A modern replacement for ls.
hub - It helps you win at git.
lumen - Beautiful git diff viewer, generate commits with AI, get summary of changes, all from the CLI.

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.