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Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by MayBeColin » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 7:52 PM UTC

Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go
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Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by tty7 » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

rich cli prompts is an oxymoron, but I'm glad you support vim movement: https://github.com/manifoldco/promptui/blob/master/select.go...

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by igitur » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by luizbranco » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

igitur wrote: post #3

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

Any language in particular? For JavaScript I'd recommend https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by baliex » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 10:14 PM UTC

igitur wrote: post #3

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

I'd be interested in something like this for python

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by hammerandtongs » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

The single screencast is pretty compelling, I'd suggest just screencasting everything from the examples and adding to your landing page.

Don't have an immediate use but I like it.

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by deadliftdouche » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 10:25 PM UTC

I'd recommend people also check out ishell https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell I've used it in a project before and absolutely loved the API + autocomplete functionality.

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by jeffandersen » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

hammerandtongs wrote: post #6

The single screencast is pretty compelling, I'd suggest just screencasting everything from the examples and adding to your landing page. Don't have an immediate use but I like it.

Truth be told we did actually screencap a bunch of scenarios for a blog post https://blog.manifold.co/promptui-get-user-input-in-your-cli...

But you're right, we should bring them to the readme or to the _examples folder.

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by fabiospampinato » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 11:01 PM UTC

luizbranco wrote: post #4

igitur wrote: post #3

I like this. Do similar projects exist for other languages?

Any language in particular? For JavaScript I'd recommend https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js

I agree.

I've published a package that exposes a few convenience methods written using it, including a cool one for printing a table (which detects the width of the terminal window and hides extra columns automatically). Check it out https://github.com/fabiospampinato/inquirer-helpers

Re: Show HN: Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go

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Post by fimdomeio » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 11:01 PM UTC

I've been dreaming with a sci-fi world where at some point the web get's so awful, that a small group splits to an alternate hypertext reality that is only text based.