Best CLIs for Dev Tools

CLI for scaffolding shadcn/ui projects, adding registry items, and inspecting project or registry metadata.

Hugo

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Static site generator CLI for scaffolding projects, previewing changes locally, and building or deploying static sites.

act

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Run GitHub Actions workflows locally in Docker to test jobs, event payloads, and CI changes before pushing.

Expo CLI for starting Expo and React Native dev servers, generating native projects, running local iOS or Android builds, and inspecting project config.

Process manager CLI for running, reloading, scaling, and inspecting long-lived Node.js, Bun, and other app processes.

Static analysis CLI for shell scripts that catches bugs, portability issues, and unsafe shell patterns before they ship.

Command runner for defining, listing, and executing project recipes from a `justfile`.

Command benchmarking CLI for comparing shell commands with statistical timing, warmups, parameter scans, and JSON exports.

Official HashiCorp CLI for defining, starting, provisioning, and destroying reproducible development environments across VM and container providers.

Dev environment CLI for installing tool versions, exporting project env vars, and running project tasks.

Official Jenkins CLI for triggering builds, managing jobs, nodes, and plugins, and running controller administration commands.

Release automation CLI for calculating versions from commit history, generating release notes, tagging releases, and publishing from CI.

Diagram-as-code CLI for rendering D2 files to SVG, PNG, PDF, PowerPoint, GIF, or text.

Shell UI CLI for adding prompts, pickers, spinners, styling, and logs to shell scripts.

Count blank, comment, and code lines across files, directories, archives, and git revisions.

SVG optimization CLI for removing editor metadata, simplifying markup, and applying configurable cleanup plugins.

asciinema

asciinema

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Terminal session recording CLI for capturing, replaying, streaming, and sharing shell sessions as asciicast text logs.

Static site generator CLI for creating, building, serving, and checking Markdown-driven websites.

Git hook manager for installing, updating, and running version-pinned multi-language hooks across repositories.

Task runner CLI for defining and running project automation, build steps, and developer workflows from `Taskfile.yml` files.

Per-directory environment manager for loading approved `.envrc` or `.env` files into shells and commands.

Code statistics CLI for counting files, lines, code, comments, and blanks across source trees.

Structural code search, lint, and rewrite CLI built on AST patterns.

Static file server CLI for previewing local sites, SPAs, and directories over HTTP or HTTPS.

Shell formatter CLI for reformatting and syntax-checking Bash, POSIX, mksh, bats, and zsh scripts.

Code metrics CLI for counting files, lines, comments, complexity, ULOC, and estimated cost across source trees.

Plain-text knowledge base CLI for creating, searching, browsing, and syncing notes, bookmarks, and todos.

File-watching CLI for rerunning commands or emitting change events when watched files change.

File watcher CLI that reruns commands or restarts a child process when watched files change.

Prose linting CLI for docs, markup files, and code comments using configurable editorial style rules.

Side-by-side colored diff CLI for comparing files and directories with clearer terminal review output.

CLI for rendering syntax-highlighted code snippets into styled PNG screenshots from files, stdin, or the clipboard.

AST-aware diff CLI that compares syntax trees instead of raw lines for source files.

Official Ionic CLI for scaffolding, serving, building, and running Ionic apps with Capacitor or Cordova.

Travis CI CLI for inspecting builds, streaming logs, managing repo settings and env vars, and encrypting `.travis.yml` secrets.

Official Figma CLI for generating, parsing, and publishing Code Connect mappings between code components and Figma components.

Sentry CLI

Sentry

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Official Sentry CLI for releases, source maps, debug files, logs, issues, and cron monitors.

Markdown linting and auto-fix CLI for CommonMark files, docs repos, and content pipelines.

Atlassian CLI

Atlassian

Official Atlassian CLI for Jira and Confluence workflows from the terminal.

Official Basecamp CLI for agent-friendly Basecamp workflows and account operations from the terminal.

Official LaunchDarkly CLI for feature flag, project, and environment workflows from the terminal.

Official Salesforce CLI for org management, metadata operations, deploy flows, and automation.

Shopify CLI

Shopify

Official Shopify CLI for apps, themes, Hydrogen storefronts, and local development workflows.