Cross-compiling Dart CLI applications with Codemagic

This article is written by Dmitry Zhifarsky

CLI stands for command-line interface, a text-based interface you can use to input commands and perform various operations. If you’ve ever used the dart or flutter commands in your console, you’ve used a CLI.

Sometimes, though, you may end up writing a CLI of your own.

Why write a CLI in Dart?

When might you need to write a CLI? If you want to statically analyze your code for potential issues (like dart_code_metrics does), automate some of your daily repeated actions (for example, scaffolding a template, like very_good_cli does), or refactor a bunch of code at once (which is called a codemod), writing a CLI is a good option to start with.