Boa generator is a simple tool for generating new CLI projects based on the Boa pkg. It is loosely inspired by the Cobra-CLI and heavily inspired by Bashly.
This project should be considered unstable until it is officially released. Use at your own risk.
Until this project is officially released, just build from source:
go build -o /somewhere/on/your/path/boaThen you can use it anywhere.
Much like the bashly init command, boa init is used to create a new boa
configuration file in the current directory. This config file, boa.yml is in
yaml by default, but can be changed to json or toml if desired. It has comments
that explain the structure of an example CLI. Modify it as you see fit.
After defining your CLI in the boa.yml, just run boa generate -i and,
assuming your boa.yml is valid, you should have a working CLI! Just add your
business logic to the appropriate places under the internal package.
Unlike the bashly CLI, the boa generator is not meant to be continuously used to
generate overtop of your existing project (it can, but it doesn't come close
to extending the entirety of the boa package). The boa package should be easy
enough to continue building your project after the initial project generation.
The boa generator is simply meant to help with getting started and quickly
prototyping a new CLI project. It's expected and even encouraged to throw out
your boa.yml/json/toml once you've outgrown its capabilities.