Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#11

Post by sbeckeriv » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:05 PM UTC

https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

Liked using this. I wrote a TUI for my company's api with it. I dont use the website much any more.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#12

Post by sjakobi » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:12 PM UTC

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the Haskell world.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#13

Post by jamesponddotco » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

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].

[1] https://aerc-mail.org/

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#14

Post by kitd » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

TView is popular and active in the Golang world

https://github.com/rivo/tview

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#15

Post by 2mol » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

sjakobi wrote: post #12

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick is popular in the Haskell world.

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.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#16

Post by manjana » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#17

Post by gw » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#18

Post by sixhobbits » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

Also take a look at Repl.it's "CLUI"[0] which they released fairly recently

[0] https://blog.repl.it/clui

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#19

Post by zephraph » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

#20

Post by andyv » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

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.