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The 12 Rules of Great CLI UX: Lessons from Building 30 Developer Tools
👤 Wilson Xu
📅 2026-03-23

The 12 Rules of Great CLI UX: Lessons from Building 30 Developer Tools Command-line interfaces are having a renaissance. With the rise of developer tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted workflows, more developers than ever are building CLI tools. But most of them ship with terrible UX. Over the past year, I’ve built and published over 30 npm CLI tools — everything from GitHub …
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