What are good examples of interactive TUI/CLI user experience? I'm looking for nice layouts, use of ASCII color, interaction patterns, nicely written help text, etc.
Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
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#2yeoman is pretty good. It gives the option of interactive or command line. Reasonable use of colour, with some layout formatting. Dynamic options.
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#3I like npm-check https://github.com/dylang/npm-check it has a really useful and easy to use UI, on of the nicest terminal UI driven applications I have used.
Edited: to use TUI instead of CLI
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#4Serverless (https://serverless.com) has a nice experience. I believe it is built using inquirer.js (https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js)
I've recently built an internal tool with inquirer and it was a really nice development and user experience. I haven't figured out the best way to test the interactions though.
termUI in go is also nice if you need graphing and viz for a dashboard like command line.
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#5- Emacs' Magit
- moc (Music on Console)
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#6git
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#7I like npm-check https://github.com/dylang/npm-check it has a really useful and easy to use UI, on of the nicest terminal UI driven applications I have used. Edited: to use TUI instead of CLI
TUI is not CLI.
htop and these curses interfaces was TUI
Re: Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
#8git
it was awful, it is getting better and I think it's a good example in several occasions
(I mean when it's not an unpredictable sequence of commands that need to be passed to accomplish something outside of a regular workflow)
Re: Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
#9Serverless ( https://serverless.com ) has a nice experience. I believe it is built using inquirer.js ( https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js ) I've recently built an internal tool with inquirer and it was a really nice development and user experience. I haven't figured out the best way to test the interactions though. termUI in go is also nice if you need graphing and viz for a dashboard like command line.
I can second Serverless. Apart from being quite a powerful tool, it also has a nice experience overall.
Re: Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
#10I like npm-check https://github.com/dylang/npm-check it has a really useful and easy to use UI, on of the nicest terminal UI driven applications I have used. Edited: to use TUI instead of CLI
TUI is not CLI. htop and these curses interfaces was TUI
Thank you for the clarification, I updated my post.