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Overview: Developing Interactive Terminal Tools

Discover how to build interactive command-line tools in Go by creating a Pomodoro timer application. Explore designing CLI apps that allow continuous user feedback and implement data abstraction with the Repository pattern to manage different data sources. Understand the benefits of interactive terminal tools for efficient, resource-light workflows.

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So far, we’ve built applications that run mostly unattended. This is one of the major benefits of command-line tools: we provide the required parameters, the tool performs some actions, and it then provides us with the results. But some applications are better suited for an interactive workflow where the user provides or receives feedback continuously, like the kinds of applications in a ...