I wrote a blog post on developing and installing your own CLI with dotnet tool and CliFx NuGet package. You can find it here:
https://devpower.co.uk/dotnet/csharp/develop-a-cli-with-csharp/
If you're not interested in the whole thing, here is the TL;DR version:
- dotnet tool is a mechanism to install/update/distribute console applications via NuGet packages
- CliFx is an awesome NuGet package that allows you to convert a console application into a full-blown CLI with commands, subcommands, arguments and auto-generated usage message.
You can check out the references to find more about these:
Top comments (2)
Seems like CliFx makes making these tools a breeze. Personally I have used
System.Commandline.Hostingfor this in the past, but unfortunatly that one is still in betaThanks for the comment. I remember using System.CommandLine.DragonFruit about 3 years ago. I'm surprised to see that one is still in alpha. Fortunately we have other open-source alternatives to those libraries.