Developing Go applications often involves managing numerous command-line options, which can quickly become tedious to handle and document. Enter flagforge, a tool designed to automate the entire process.
With flagforge, you only need to define your command-line flags once in a TOML file. From there, the tool generates:
- Go code for flag parsing.
- Markdown documentation.
- HTML documentation.
This means no more repetitive code-writing or manually updating documentation whenever a flag changes.
Getting Started with Flagforge
Clone the repository and build the tool using Go:
To explore the tool’s usage options, simply run:
Then, generate your desired output format:
Real-World Example: rqlite
The distributed database rqlite uses flagforge to manage its extensive set of command-line options. flagforge generates everything from its Go parsing code to its comprehensive HTML flag documentation.
By streamlining this process, flagforge saves development time and ensures consistency across code and documentation.
Next steps
Check out the repo on GitHub — flagforge makes it easy to automate your flag management coding and documentation.