Is there a template you've been using to create CLI tools?

[hirehamir]

numbat, hyperfine and bat are all excellent CLI tools. I was wondering if there's some template you've been using as a foundation for each of them, or if you more or less create each terminal application from scratch each time.

[hirehamir]

I've heard positive things about https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui, but I don't know if you've ever used it to build anything.

[eminence]

To see what numbat was built with, take a look at the Cargo.toml file. The most interesting things here are rustyline and colored.

Ratatui is great for certain types of TUIs, but it's not used here for numbat. I personally use ratatui in several of my projects (like procdump for example) and it's great

[hirehamir]

I see. Thanks for the response!

[sharkdp]

numbat, hyperfine and bat are all excellent CLI tools. I was wondering if there's some template you've been using as a foundation for each of them, or if you more or less create each terminal application from scratch each time.

Thank you for the feedback. More or less from scratch every time, yes. But you will certainly find a lot of similarities. Libraries that I use, error handling strategy, etc. If you want to see a smaller example, maybe check out https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl which is not as big as the other projects.

[hirehamir]

You're welcome!