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Gluegun is a delightful toolkit for building Node-powered command-line interfaces (CLIs) in TypeScript or modern JavaScript. It provides built-in capabilities for command parsing, file generation, patching, filesystem operations, running external processes, HTTP interactions, prompts, and pretty printing, with an extensible plugins system for expansion. Developed by Infinite Red and used by projects like Ignite CLI and AWS Amplify CLI, Gluegun accelerates CLI development while remaining flexible.
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