CLI & Terminal Packages
Command-line-interface frameworks and terminal UI/prompt libraries for building polished, scriptable developer tools (Cobra, Clap, Click, Commander).
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Shellingham
Tiny Python library that detects which shell (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, cmd) is running the current process
@oclif/plugin-help
The standard help command plugin for oclif CLIs
Poetry
Poetry is a dependency management and packaging tool for Python that resolves, locks, and installs project dependencies through a single pyproject.toml file.
AWS CLI
The unified command-line interface for managing every Amazon Web Services resource from your terminal.
pprof
The visualization and analysis tool for profile.proto performance profiles, with interactive, graph, and web-based views.
Glamour
Stylesheet-based Markdown rendering that turns plain text into styled ANSI output for Go CLI apps.
go-i18n
Go i18n library for translating apps into 200+ languages with full CLDR plural support and a companion CLI.
inquire
A Rust library for building interactive command-line prompts — text, select, multiselect, confirm, date, and password inputs with validation, autocompletion, and theming.
questionary
A Python library for building pretty, interactive command-line prompts — select menus, checkboxes, autocomplete, and confirmations.
termenv
Advanced ANSI color and style support for Go terminal apps, with automatic terminal-capability detection and safe degradation.
Rustyline
A readline/line-editing library for building interactive Rust REPLs and CLI shells
pyperclip
A cross-platform Python module for copying and pasting text to the system clipboard, with zero required dependencies.
update-notifier
Notify CLI users of new npm package versions without slowing down startup
comfy-table
A minimalistic Rust library for building beautiful, dynamically-wrapped terminal tables
json-diff
A Node.js CLI and library for structural JSON diffing, with fuzzy matching for changed array elements and colorized terminal output.
table
Renders arrays of data as clean, precisely aligned ASCII/Unicode tables for terminal output, with full ANSI-color and fullwidth-character awareness.
owo-colors
A zero-allocation, no_std-compatible, zero-cost way to add color to your Rust terminal output
Symfony Runtime
Decouples PHP applications from global state and framework bootstrapping conventions
uniseg
A Go library implementing Unicode Text Segmentation, Line Breaking, and monospace string width calculation per the Unicode Standard.
go-shellwords
A Go library that splits shell-style command-line strings into argument slices, honoring POSIX quoting, escaping, and substitution rules.
del-cli
Cross-platform command-line tool to delete files and directories with glob support
Docker Compose
The official CLI plugin for defining and running multi-container Docker applications from a single Compose file.
Textual
The Python framework for building sophisticated terminal and web user interfaces with a simple, async-native API.
Badge Maker
The standalone SVG badge-rendering library and CLI extracted from Shields.io, with no server dependency.
