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Is this better than splitting panes up with Tmux or similar? You end up losing the ability to pipe things. What do you gain?
I've always wanted to create something like vtop but for network and disk io, this might finally let me do it myself.
Does anyone know of a similar library for node which does this? I've decided to make my next app TUI first, and then only add in a GUI much later, but I haven't seen anything that looks nearly as good as rich.
There's `blessed` [0], a plain JS lib similar to `ncurses`. There's also `react-blessed` [1], which is a React renderer that targets `blessed` as the display layer, and `ink` [2], which is also a text-based React renderer but using its own display layer. [0] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [1] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [2] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
It seems like Python and Node are not good choices for command line tools. Rust or Go make a lot more sense as your end users won’t have to install any libs or package managers. Single binary distribution ftw.
Rich is really great. It didn't actually need us to add much to make it work as a terminal layout manager too - all the pieces were really there already for us to build on.
Let me know if you have any questions about our experiences with Rich and ghtop.
It seems like Python and Node are not good choices for command line tools. Rust or Go make a lot more sense as your end users won’t have to install any libs or package managers. Single binary distribution ftw.
pip is installed by default on mac and linux. For non posix experienced users, pip installing packages is actually easier than figuring out how to put a binary on the path. Not to mention, updates are just a command, you dont have to go find the url, redownload, and replace the binary.
It seems like Python and Node are not good choices for command line tools. Rust or Go make a lot more sense as your end users won’t have to install any libs or package managers. Single binary distribution ftw.
As someone who really only knows Python (I'm not a developer), I was thinking the same thing. I think this would be really useful for me to use for some personal projects. Or for libraries for someone who already uses Python. I guess that's enough for it to be useful, but I wish I could package it up better to let someone who doesn't know a thing about Python use what I made.
As a user I’m just encouraging people not to use an interpreted language to build tools you plan to distribute.
It seems like Python and Node are not good choices for command line tools. Rust or Go make a lot more sense as your end users won’t have to install any libs or package managers. Single binary distribution ftw.
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg [2] https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze
Is this better than splitting panes up with Tmux or similar? You end up losing the ability to pipe things. What do you gain?
The future repeats the past. This looks much like the back-end systems I used to design on TurboPascal in the late 1980s / early 1990s. https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/pictures/tp-80.png
Except for CAD applications and some games, almost everything we do online today could be accomplished via textual UI. Almost the entire internet could be replaced with TUIs and a lot of things would be better and more straightforward, and nearly everyone would be able to do what they need to do online.
TUIs are fast, they are light, they are ultra responsive and ... Yeah. They're definitely underrated. They're probably a lot easier for screen-readers, too.
I'm not suggesting that we undo everything and make a TUI web, but I do want to point out that we do a hell of a lot on today's UIs that we don't need to do, solely because some designer who wants to make pretty things that function poorly said so.
