Note: The
pi-cliframework is in pre-release. It is not ready for production deployment.
pi-cli is the most flexible cross-platform framework for building modern CLI terminals for your company, product, service, SaaS, development, and testing needs. Users, customers, and enterprises across engineering, manufacturing, technology, digital industries, digital twins, artificial intelligence, machine learning, finance, media, creative design, etc., can create CLI apps with few flags or advanced CLIs with roots, groups, sub-commands, arguments, and options.
Take your app, service, or tool to the command line with Unicode support and build CLI terminals in any user language.
- Build and configure your CLI terminal using microservices-based architecture principles, Dependency Injection(DI services), and options pattern.
- Use default handlers or provide custom implementations to handle terminal UX, command parsing, error handling, command validations, storage, and type checking.
- Provide self-hosting implementations for stores and hosts in an environment of your choice, e.g., Windows, Linux, macOS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Build deployment agnostic CLI terminals with all dependencies, test them in local environments and deploy the production terminals on-premise, cloud (public, private, or government), or hybrid.
- Enable enterprise-grade secured CLI applications for your products and services similar to GitHub CLI, .NET CLI, Stripe CLI or CLI terminals with custom formats.
- Collaborate in an open-source environment, troubleshoot issues, and provide your feedback on the features and documentation
- Use demo license for quick onboarding, testing, and evaluating ready-to-use samples on GitHub. No account is needed.
The framework handles the entire CLI infrastructure, so your focus is on building modern CLI apps and services. Our ready-to-use templates and sample tutorials will get you started in no time. The software license and pricing model is flexible and fits all, whether you are a community member, solo entrepreneur, small-medium business, large enterprise, or a service vendor.
In short, if what you want to achieve is doable in the .NET ecosystem, it is possible with
pi-cli.
This repository contains the source and test for the pi-cli framework. We build the following NuGet packages from this repository.
We track the issues and tasks here. We make our best effort to respond to issues in a timely fashion. You can read more about our procedures for classifying and resolving issues in our Issues policy topic.
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. See the Code of Conduct.
See our licensing terms, redistribution terms and pricing.
You need a commercial license for non-educational or production environments.
The documentation and code samples are hosted in our docs repository.