DadJoke-CLI-with-Cobra

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have Go installed.
• Make sure you have $GOBIN set and added to your PATH.

Downloading Cobra

• Download the latest version of Cobra using:
  • go install github.com/spf13/cobra-cli@latest
• Run the cobra-cli commad to verify installation.

Usage with Go

Initialize the CLI

• Create a new go project.

  • I'll name mine DadJoke-CLI-with-Cobra.

• Initialize the go mod using:

  • go mod init github.com/sheryarbutt/DadJoke-CLI-with-Cobra

• Initialize the cobra command using:

  • cobra-cli init

This will create a main.go file and a cmd directory in the project.

• Navgite to the cmd directory and update Long and Short descriptions in root.go.

• Verify proper initialization using:

  • go run main.go

Create a new command

• Add new command called random using:
  • cobra-cli add random
• This will add a new random.go file to the cmd directory.
• Navgite to the cmd directory and update Long and Short descriptions in random.go.
• Add code to handle the random command in random.go.
  • I'm using icanhazdadjoke.com to get random dad jokes through their API.

Runing the application

• Run the CLI application using:
  • go run main.go
• Get a random joke using:
  • go run main.go random