Looks amazing! Does anyone know of TUI libraries for Rust or Go that achieve this level of polish? I've tried bubblegum, ratatui, tview but none of these seem to match the sleek, polished look of Textual.
Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
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Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#72why, is something wrong with the jira web ui?
I hate how Atlassian products hijack regular browser features and re-implement them in JS. When I open our Confluence page, it runs a bloated mess of 10MB of JavaScript. All of their WYSIWYG editors are terrible and I'm constantly fighting the formatting. Just let me input regular markdown already. TUIs are usually the most snappy interfaces you can have. Pure bliss in comparison. To their credit, at least Atlassian…
Unfortunately, Textual, the TUI framework this uses, hijacks the mouse and regular terminal and GUI features and reimplements them poorly in Python.
It breaks everything from text selection to copy and paste.
It’s not your usual TUI framework. I tried using it yesterday to implement a simple console app — the damn thing even uses CSS for styling.
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#73This is cool. I'm not a fan of TUIs at all (poor man's GUI if you ask me) but anything beats the Jira website trash. I will definitely be curious to see how much of Jira's abysmal performance is due to the website design (got to be a fair bit given how badly things like drag and drop perform) and how much is due to the server.
What I like about TUIs are that they are forced to be simple, and are forced to load all data at once. I don’t prefer interacting with an app in a terminal window, but I do prefer the kinds of apps that are built with these constraints in mind.
There’s nothing preventing web apps from being built this way, but they just often are not.
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#74I still dont understand why there is no unified UI for a lof of ticketing systems, I'm so tired of popping into different teams and its a night and day difference between how things are configured.Just give me a kanban board.
Get your Jira admin to configure it as Kanban :)
Sometimes the org is so big, nobody wants to put any effort into knowing who the admin even is.
Nowadays I'm in ADO, I still want a unified UI for any and all ticketing systems that allows me a consistent UI regardless of JIRA or even ADO. I'm tired of so many different workflows that make no sense.
But they all claim to be scrum / agile.
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#75I do have some complaints about the Jira web ui (in particular it seems finding correct issues can be difficult), though maybe nothing too severe. For me the most useful thing would be a cli tool (not tui) to just add stories. This way I could just write a bunch of stories in a text file (..or an .org file..) with the conveniences of my editor and upload them. Seems jiratui actually comes with some cli tools as well,…
You can write your stories in csv (or vibe code a tool to do that) and then batch import the CSV.
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#76This is cool. I'm not a fan of TUIs at all (poor man's GUI if you ask me) but anything beats the Jira website trash. I will definitely be curious to see how much of Jira's abysmal performance is due to the website design (got to be a fair bit given how badly things like drag and drop perform) and how much is due to the server.
What I like about TUIs are that they are forced to be simple, and are forced to load all data at once. I don’t prefer interacting with an app in a terminal window, but I do prefer the kinds of apps that are built with these constraints in mind. There’s nothing preventing web apps from being built this way, but they just often are not.
Could you expand on "and are forced to load all data at once"?
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#77we need a TUI version of the AWS console :-)
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#78I desparately want something like this for Github. I appreciate the value of the web browser providing the universal "quick" GUI (as in "I can open it on most devices and instantly interact"), but for power users I really wish more people were shipping things that helped out people not afraid to learn a bunch of keyboard commands
Nothing prevents a Web app from having good keyboard shortcuts; Gmail and Linear are great examples. GitHub becomes much more comfortable with the Refined GitHub extension. It adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, among a ton of other small improvements.
> Nothing prevents a Web app from having good keyboard shortcuts; Gmail and Linear are great examples.
I think nothing prevents a web app from having keyboard shortcuts, but more often than not what I see is web apps having bad keyboard shortcuts that hijack the browser's natural behavior (taking over -f is a good example). I think often people go at this as if it's an Electron app and not a browser that has literally a hundred other interfaces loaded into it, leading the user to have certain expectations.
All that aside your Gmail example is spot on, and I'm one of those google-hatin' dudes.
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#79I desparately want something like this for Github. I appreciate the value of the web browser providing the universal "quick" GUI (as in "I can open it on most devices and instantly interact"), but for power users I really wish more people were shipping things that helped out people not afraid to learn a bunch of keyboard commands
I'm not a github power user but check out Lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)!
Re: Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
#80This is cool. I'm not a fan of TUIs at all (poor man's GUI if you ask me) but anything beats the Jira website trash. I will definitely be curious to see how much of Jira's abysmal performance is due to the website design (got to be a fair bit given how badly things like drag and drop perform) and how much is due to the server.
I consider it the frugal man's GUI. Right now looking at top, any time I load a browser tab with Jira content chromium spikes to the top of the list. I'm not even doing anything with it.