Software Development with Go: Cloud-Native Programming using Golang with Linux and Docker

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N. TolaramSoftware Development with Gohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8731-6_15

15. ANSI and UI

Nanik Tolaram¹  

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Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

In this chapter, you will learn about writing command-line applications that have a user interface (UI). You will look at adding text styling, such as italic or bold text, text of a different color, a UI that uses a spinner, and more. This kind of user interface is possible by using ANSI escape codes, which contain code to do certain things in the terminal.

You will also look at an open source library that makes it easy to write a user interface that takes care of all the heavy lifting of writing the different ANSI escape ...