Show HN: My first Go project, a useless animated bunny sign for your terminal

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10 points by stgr_codes 2 days ago

Hi HN, I wanted to share my very first (insignificant) project written in Go: a little CLI tool that displays messages with an animated bunny holding a sign.

I wanted to learn Go and needed a small, fun project to get my hands dirty with the language and the process of building and distributing a CLI. I've built a similar tool in JavaScript before so I thought porting it would be a great learning exercise.

This was a dive into Go's basics for me, from package structure and CLI flag parsing to building binaries for different platforms (never did that on my JS projects).

I'm starting to understand why Go is so praised: it's standard library is huge compared with other languages. One thing that really impressed me was the idea (at some point of this journey) to develop a functionality by myself (where in the javascript original project I choose to use an external library), here with the opportunities that std lib was giving me I thought "why don't try to create the function by miself?" and it worked! In the Js version I used the nodejs "log-update", here I write a dedicated pkg.

I know it's a bit silly, but I could see it being used to add some fun to build scripts or idk highlight important log messages, or just make a colleague smile. It's easy to install if you have Go set up:

  go install github.com/fsgreco/go-bunny-sign/cmd/bunnysign@latest
Since I'm new to Go, I would genuinely appreciate any feedback on the code, project structure, or Go best practices. The README also lists my planned next steps, like adding tests and setting up CI better.

Thanks for taking a look!

hactually 18 minutes ago

it's good! you don't need a pkg folder btw - they're not a go standard. check out `internal` as it's recognised by the tool chain and may be what you want

yomismoaqui an hour ago

Also you can run it directly (no need for npx envy)

go run github.com/fsgreco/go-bunny-sign/cmd/bunnysign@latest "hello world"

runjake an hour ago

It's a pretty good start, now add | (pipe) chars to either sides of the phrases, properly aligned and spaced to form a box.

amelius an hour ago

No button to punch the bunny?

maxmcd an hour ago

zero deps, nice instructions, how nice