[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text...
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User
Interface)?
Anyone seen anything exciting/interesting in the field of TUI's?
Any language, as long as the library is interesting with good
examples or screen shots/videos. For those unfamiliar, a TUI is a
text mode user interface library, for building user interfaces
within character oriented plain text consoles.
Author : andrewstuart
Score : 50 points
Date : 2020-09-08 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
| sjakobi wrote:
| http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the
| Haskell world.
| 2mol wrote:
| Can confirm that it's awesome for getting something small and
| useful done quickly.
|
| I was a beginner Haskell programmer when I first used brick,
| and it's great exposure to building a real world application
| (something a lot of Haskell beginners crave learning). Docs are
| very good too.
|
| Code for anyone that might find it useful:
| https://github.com/2mol/pboy
|
| edit: forgot to mention that it's very "Elm architecture", so
| if you like modern frontend development, then you might feel
| right at home in that paradigm.
| allthing wrote:
| I'm not really sure any TUI I've ever seen could really be
| classified as "good" but the one I like best is probably urwid
| (http://urwid.org/).
| sixhobbits wrote:
| Also take a look at Repl.it's "CLUI"[0] which they released
| fairly recently
|
| [0] https://blog.repl.it/clui
| css wrote:
| Python includes bindings for curses and includes some pretty good
| documentation:
| https://docs.python.org/3/howto/curses.html#curses-howto
| zephraph wrote:
| In the node ecosystem there are a few interesting ones.
|
| https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for writing TUIs with react.
| Here's a project I wrote using that:
| https://github.com/zephraph/solitaire. It's not as powerful as
| ncurses, but it works rather well.
|
| If you want something more on par with ncurses try
| https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit
| andrewstuart wrote:
| https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit
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| This is the one that most catches my attention.
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| Currently actively maintained plus it has something analagous
| to a document object model https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-
| kit/blob/master/doc/docu...
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| Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for
| creating TUI apps - mind bending!
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| https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
|
| I can imagine the things above being combined with a sandbox
| plus Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/
| into a new type of application ..... the "pure text mode
| browser".
|
| A "pure text mode browser" would not be designed to render
| ordinary HTML web pages, but would instead be a minimal browser
| designed only for text mode.
| jamesponddotco wrote:
| aerc[1]'s design is the main reason why I use it over mutt, even
| though mutt has more features. No idea what they use behind the
| scenes for their TUI, but you could take a look at their source
| code[2].
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| [1] https://aerc-mail.org/
|
| [2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc
| Shared404 wrote:
| It looks like Tcell probably, assuming I've understood what
| Tcell does correctly.
|
| https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/
| andyv wrote:
| My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at
| http://www.urwid.org. It was a little hard for me to wrap my head
| around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI
| applications without a lot of code. Easy to install, many
| examples to work from.
| rbanffy wrote:
| How popular is it in the Python space? I loved the large text
| widget and would love to contribute with a font using the
| Teletext 2x3 mosaics that got into Unicode 13 (which are fully
| supported in VTE)
| aeontech wrote:
| python prompt toolkit [0] and click [1] are used to create tools
| like pgcli [2], which is utterly wonderful.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
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| [1]: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/
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| [2]: https://www.pgcli.com/
| aaron-santos wrote:
| https://github.com/chjj/blessed is a curses-like library with a
| high level terminal interface API for node.js. It also has
| impressive demos.
| jakobdabo wrote:
| notcurses - https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
| corysama wrote:
| I'd to try out https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui Looks like a
| lot of fun.
| tabtab wrote:
| I've been looking for something similar that either has a markup
| language associated with it or is easy to add one to. I wish to
| prototype a GUI markup standard with it as a proof of concept so
| that we can have GUI-over-HTTP instead of live with the ever
| failing & bloated HTML/JS/DOM/CSS GUI emulators. So far,
| Terminal.Gui looks interesting, but I don't know if it's cross-
| platform yet.
| dheera wrote:
| I wrote a Python library to draw graphics in a console using
| Braille dots, with a fallback mode to ASCII:
|
| https://github.com/dheera/python-termgraphics
|
| I used it in ROSshow, which visualizes robot sensor data inside a
| terminal:
|
| https://github.com/dheera/rosshow
| rbanffy wrote:
| Teletext (also TRS-80) 2x3 mosaics got into Unicode 13. I hope
| Kaypro's 2x4 mosaics get into version 14.
| kitd wrote:
| TView is popular and active in the Golang world
|
| https://github.com/rivo/tview
| nikisweeting wrote:
| I like https://github.com/bpython/curtsies by @ballingt. It was
| used to implement bpython, one of the best python REPLs imo.
| fuball63 wrote:
| I like termbox. I'm the Ada binding maintainer. A quick search
| and you can find many other language bindings.
| https://github.com/bmsauer/termbox-ada
| heldergg wrote:
| Turbo Vision, this is TUI perfection.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
| ystad wrote:
| Ah, I remember this. This is friendly UI
| andrewstuart wrote:
| This looks pretty impressive:
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| Terminal.Gui - Terminal GUI toolkit for .NET
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| https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs
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| Written by Miguel de Icaza.
|
| Hanselman wrote on it here:
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| https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Its2020AndItIsTimeForTextMode...
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| and here:
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| https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DotnetDependsIsAGreatTextMode...
| dsissitka wrote:
| I'm curious about what other people think about this one. I
| tried the demo in a few terminals a couple months ago and it
| didn't work well in any of them.
| manjana wrote:
| You could check out AsciiMatics.
| https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics
|
| Here are some examples how it can look in action:
| https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/wiki
| gw wrote:
| For nim i like this one: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill
|
| It is immediate mode so you render the entire UI every tick,
| though it is smart enough to not actually redraw things that
| didn't change.
| sbeckeriv wrote:
| https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
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| Liked using this. I wrote a TUI for my company's api with it. I
| dont use the website much any more.
| imhoguy wrote:
| Don't know why, but I have imagined a CSS framework for text
| only.
|
| Edit: found one https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
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