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CLI Development Toolkits

Libraries and frameworks for building rich command-line apps—covering argument parsing, interactive prompts, theming, and plugin architectures.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

73 projects

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
Node.js
51,498
10,003
$3.9B
Laravel Framework
24,179
4,627
$11M
The Symfony PHP Framework
17,041
3,392
$67M
Cline
7,800
1,077
$21M
React Native Community CLI
3,525
676
$729K
clap
3,145
1,184
$2.5M
Click
2,676
979
$703K
Cobra
2,360
978
$470K
Commander.js
1,964
859
$593K
Yargs
1,849
760
$805K
migrate
1,843
629
$663K
Inquirer.js
1,726
616
$671K
urfave/cli
1,524
641
$909K
Python Prompt Toolkit
1,403
434
$1.3M
Typer
1,377
533
$949K
System.CommandLine
1,186
291
$1M
pgcli
1,094
382
$409K
exo
1,091
196
$2.4M
Thor
996
426
$306K
ShellJS
954
377
$281K
Bubble Tea
881
299
$359K
picocli
854
240
$18M
Ink
825
342
$731K
zx
778
317
$370K
Python Fire
655
221
$279K
OpenCommit
637
188
$215K
CLI11
586
158
$1.2M
JCommander
567
179
$1.7M
Plop
561
188
$254K
Spring Shell
550
123
$1M
Apache Cordova CLI
487
109
$79K
Prompts
450
180
$94K
Enquirer
443
189
$689K
Plumbum
439
142
$602K
StructOpt
431
191
$197K
CommandLineUtils
418
120
$3.6M
Survey
389
176
$263K
argcomplete
376
143
$119K
Kong
353
152
$354K
Aruba
340
151
$550K
Collision
337
141
$148K
promptui
332
160
$68K
Prompt
325
134
$78K
Kingpin
324
165
$182K
oclif
313
111
$659K
Clack
290
114
$318K
HighLine
289
98
$221K
Questionary
268
81
$180K
PTerm
257
95
$869K
TTY::Prompt
170
61
$339K
Listr2
169
78
$453K
Command-Option-Argument
167
50
$52K
argparse
149
67
$236K
Rich Click
141
59
$1M
getopts
129
61
$64K
command-line-args
124
58
$92K
Citty
101
52
$51K
args
95
49
$27K
minimist
71
31
$44K
Arg
62
29
$27K
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