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Using better CLIs

Nikita Sobolev on October 07, 2017

For people who spend half of their lives in a terminal user experience and functionality is highly important. Making you a happier person. Here ar...

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rhymes • Oct 8 '17

Thanks for the tips, so many tools I didn't know about!

My turnoff with pipenv is that it requires the user to enter a "sub" shell or use "pyenv run" to load the environment instead of just loading it in the current shell (like virtualenv activate does). The idea of the lock file was truly needed in Python realm though

Nikita Sobolev • Oct 8 '17 • Edited

pipenv is still evolving. Right now it has some issues with dependencies resolution on a big projects. And sub-shell bothers me too.

But it already is so much better than pip!

rhymes • Oct 8 '17

ahha definitely! I wonder if "pipenv run" has any impacts in production. I've never deployed a project using pipenv. I'll have to study it a bit more.

Thanks!

Nikita Sobolev • Oct 8 '17

Then take a look at our django template: github.com/wemake-services/wemake-...

It uses pipenv for production (also docker, gitlab ci, and caddy). Works perfectly fine!

rhymes • Oct 9 '17

Thanks Nikita, there's a lot of good stuff in there! :-)

Luke Bearl • Mar 21 '18

Just a note: for the pgcli stuff: that is part of the dbcli project, so there are other CLIs for things like MySQL, SQL Server, etc.

Awesome article, I'd never seen doitlive before, but I'll def be checking that out.

Bram Schoenmakers • Oct 27 '17

For todo lists, try topydo, a powerful application based on the todo.txt format. It has three interfaces: a command line interface, a prompt and a text based graphical user interface.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author. A similar application is TaskWarrior)

derBingle • Oct 9 '17

Thanks for mentioning glances, I missed that one somewhere along the way.

I've started using exa instead of the default ls. Really nice!

Nikita Sobolev • Oct 10 '17

Thanks! I have already seen it, but I actually don't see any difference between ipython and ptpython.

Could you please provide an example?

Liran Tal • Oct 10 '17

if you're already on the topic of better CLIs then... Dockly for a docker containers dashboard / management straight from the terminal

Daniel Serodio • Mar 20 '18

jo is a nice complement for jq :)

Aidas Bendoraitis • Oct 23 '17 • Edited

bpython is also a nice tool. It gives you features like autocomplete, history of previous commands, syntax highlighting, and more.

Michael • Mar 20 '18

Thanks for the article so many new things to review and explore.

Marlon Schultz • Apr 23 '18

If you are using AWS on the CLI a lot, aws-shell comes in quite handy with autocompletion. However it is more a standalone cli tool, than just a CLI tool.

github.com/awslabs/aws-shell