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Building Your First CLI Tool

Anuradha Aggarwal on August 24, 2025

Hello developers!! You must have use multiple CLI tools in your everyday development like echo, ls, cd etc. Let’s try to understand it in a better...
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Pranamya Rajashekhar

Ohhh this gives me so many ideas! Going to try it out for sure!

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Jay

I love this. I'm a big fan of using the terminal as much as possible but I never tried to make a program or tool directly inside it. I might have to give this a try.

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Debajyati Dey

Nice Write Up!

You may also like to have a read on my article that explores how to add oauth authnetication in your JS based CLI tools!

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Pal Bronlund • Edited

For the love of god, stop with the JavaScript all over the place already! It's made for doing stuff inside a browser, not for letting web developers ruin a perfectly good backend :)

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Prasoon Jadon

Ohhh , nice , I am going to try this

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Kunal Kamble

Interesting and very beginner friendly!
I am also working on a CLI UI as my side project: github.com/rational-kunal/BlinkUI

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La Truong Hoang Phat

Why u dont write bash/zsh script???

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Muhammed Sabith

is it possible to make this in python ?

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Keff

Yup, most languages allow this!

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Muhammed Sabith

I did one on python, 2 hours ago ! check it out on my profile

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Muhammed Sabith

definitely gonna try it out ! saving this right now