Crate cli_battery_pack 

cli-battery-pack

A battery pack for building CLI applications in Rust.

What’s Included

Crate	What it does
anstream	Auto-detecting stream for terminal color support
anstyle	ANSI text styling
anstyle-hyperlink	ANSI hyperlink support
supports-hyperlinks	Detect terminal hyperlink support
anyhow	Ergonomic error handling for applications
clap	Command-line argument parsing with derive macros
colorchoice-clap	Clap argument for controlling color output
wild	Glob argument expansion (for Windows compatibility)
dialoguer	Interactive prompts and user input
human-panic	Human-friendly panic messages

Dev dependencies

Crate	What it does
snapbox	Snapshot testing for CLI commands

Optional features

• indicators: indicatif for progress bars, console for terminal styling
• search: regex for pattern matching, ignore for gitignore-aware file walking
• config: etcetera for platform-native configuration directories

Quick Start

cargo bp add cli

Want progress bars too?

cargo bp add cli -F indicators

License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Crate	Version	Description
anstream	1.0.0	IO stream adapters for writing colored text that will gracefully degrade according to your terminal’s capabilities.
anstyle	1.0.14	ANSI text styling
anstyle-hyperlink	1.0.2	ANSI escape code hyperlinks (OSC 8)
anyhow	1	Flexible concrete Error type built on std::error::Error
clap	4	A simple to use, efficient, and full-featured Command Line Argument Parser
colorchoice-clap	1.0.8	Clap mixin to override console colors
console	0.15	A terminal and console abstraction for Rust
dialoguer	0.11	A command line prompting library.
etcetera	0.11.0
human-panic	2.0.8	Panic messages for humans
ignore	0.4
indicatif	0.17
regex	1
snapbox	1.2.1	Snapshot testing toolbox
supports-hyperlinks	3.2.0	Detects whether a terminal supports rendering hyperlinks.
wild	2.2.1	Glob (wildcard) expanded command-line arguments on Windows

Functions

validate

Validate that the consumer’s dependencies match this battery pack’s specs.