Episode 63: Cobra CLI Explained: Build Advanced CLI Apps

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Instructor: Amrit Pal SinghLanguage: English

About the episode

In this episode, we're diving into Golang's Cobra CLI package—one of the most powerful libraries for building command-line applications. 

⏩ What You’ll Learn:
- What Cobra CLI is and why it’s so widely used (even in major tools like Kubernetes)
- Step-by-step installation and setup of Cobra CLI in a Golang project
- Building a CLI app with commands and subcommands for generating Hex, Base64, and UUIDs
- Adding and handling flags for customizable user input

By the end of this video, you'll have a fully functional CLI tool in Go that can generate random hex strings, Base64 strings, and UUIDs on demand!

🔧 Commands Used in This Video:
- Cobra CLI installation: go get -u github.com/spf13/cobra@latest
- Project initialization: cobra-cli init
- Adding subcommands for generating Hex, Base64, and UUID values: cobra-cli add <subcommand>

📖 Resources:
- Cobra CLI GitHub: https://github.com/spf13/cobra
- Full documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/spf13/cobra
- Source code: https://github.com/code-heim/go_63_cobra_cli

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