Cobra is a library and generation tool for creating command line interfaces. It simplifies the work needed to create a good CLI. It is written in Go and is used in quite a few well know open source projects. Docker, Kubernetes, Etcd and the GitHub CLI all use Cobra. Check out this link for a larger list of projects. There are some great older posts on how to use Cobra available online, but I still thought it was worth creating my own.

Golang is a hot topic among developers these days. languages like Golang and node.js are getting a lot of attention. For most folks switching programing languages is a big deal and it usually takes some production catastrophe or poorly aging codebase to motivate the switch. It’s like when someone has that way too special night with tequila and decides “never again.” For others they switch and/or experiment with other languages like they change their socks.

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better. The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012. This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture. In technology nothing stays constant, so why should the Erdiko framework? This is leading to a new architecture for this micro MVC framework.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/ Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github. Take a look and let me know what you think. We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier. https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress If you don’t know what headless WordPress is, it’s a way to run WP as your CMS (admin) yet use another framework/app to theme your content.

Our lead developer at Arroyo Labs has put together a couple of posts to introduce developers to Angular 2 by comparing it to Angular 1. https://www.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/understanding-angularjs-2-vs-angularjs-1-part-1/ https://www.arroyolabs.com/2016/03/understanding-angularjs-2-vs-angularjs-1-part-2/