Boa Generator

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.

Disclaimer

This project should be considered unstable until it is officially released. Use at your own risk.

Building from source (for now)

Until this project is officially released, just build from source:

go build -o /somewhere/on/your/path/boa

Then you can use it anywhere.

Initialize

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.

Generate

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.

"Day 2 Operations"

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.