[SUGGESTION] Have a root command

[gcarreno]

Hey Ikel(@ikelaiah),

Apologies in advance for being such a pest!! 🤗

From my experience it looks like you decided that you would force the need to always have a command.
I'll always compare this to cobra, because for me, it's the golden standard...

So, in cobra you have the rootCmd. This does not imply it has a name. I would, kinda, compare it to what you know are calling the Application.

The effect is that if you only have the root command, and it's always mandatory that you have one, then you can do an app without forcing the need to always have a named on.
This allows one to create a simple but command-less app, if one so chooses.

You could make the Application be a bit more like a command... But I'm not sure if this is even a good idea!!

Not sure if this is more of a pain than anything. Please give me your input on this.

Also, I just noticed that you can't do subcommands... Would that also be a major pain?

Cheers,
Gus

[ikelaiah]

Hi @gcarreno ,

Thanks for the feedback as always!

From my experience it looks like you decided that you would force the need to always have a command.

Yes! It was a decision made by my lack of experience in creating CLI tooling.

So, in cobra you have the rootCmd. This does not imply it has a name. I would, kinda, compare it to what you know are calling the Application.

The effect is that if you only have the root command, and it's always mandatory that you have one, then you can do an app without forcing the need to always have a named on.

This is new. Thanks for the info.

Also, I just noticed that you can't do subcommands... Would that also be a major pain?

In Go's cobra? unsure.

In cli-fp, I have provided a basic demo on how to accomplish this: https://github.com/ikelaiah/cli-fp/blob/main/examples/SubCommandDemo/SubCommandDemo.lpr

Now about this comment of yours ...

can do an app without forcing the need to always have a named on.

... this is gold. Let me think how to best accommodate this.

Regards,
ikel

[gcarreno]

Hey Ikel(@ikelaiah),

In cli-fp, I have provided a basic demo on how to accomplish this: https://github.com/ikelaiah/cli-fp/blob/main/examples/SubCommandDemo/SubCommandDemo.lpr

DOH !!! I'm DUMB !!! LOL 🤣

Thanks for pointing that out!!

Now about this comment of yours ...

can do an app without forcing the need to always have a named on.

... this is gold. Let me think how to best accommodate this.

I'll look forward for the fruits of your labour !! 😉

Cheers,
Gus

[ikelaiah]

@gcarreno , I have not forgotten about this too.