blessed-contrib vs dashing

blessed-contrib

Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript (by yaronn)

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dashing

Terminal dashboards for Python (by FedericoCeratto)

Python Python3 Terminal Dashboard terminal-based Gauges Charts

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blessed-contrib		dashing
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10	Mentions	1
15,398	Stars	393
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	22 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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blessed-contrib

Posts with mentions or reviews of blessed-contrib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

good high-level ncurses library
5 projects | /r/commandline | 10 Jul 2023

I still can't tear myself away from blessed-contrib and it's unfortunate to see that these projects are not very maintained
Dear Redditors! Can someone please explain to me how this widget works?
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Apr 2023

Link:https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib PS I'm sorry for the bad English
does anyone know of libraries with which I can make a text element on the site (as in the example)
2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Apr 2023
Command line applications
7 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 18 Sep 2022

Yes, you can create whatever you want - from simple CLI utils , through moderately complex interactive tools (example by me), to complex, full-fledged command line applications (example, another example).
An idea for a virtual pet in my Linux terminal
3 projects | /r/SideProject | 5 Apr 2022
Table and color formats
4 projects | /r/Bitburner | 16 Feb 2022

On Rust/WASM I have been playing around with using TUI which is a lib inspired by the NodeJS library Blessed Contrib which might me a good idea to look at (not sure how well it works with javascript though). I have also used Comfy-table with Rust for simple table output.
I created an htop-like terminal dashboard for viewing and managing docker containers, written in Node
3 projects | /r/node | 29 Jun 2021

✅ Built with the Node.js, blessed, and blessed-contrib
I made a terminal utility to monitor some system stats. Was wondering if you guys know of anything better or if I should continue dev work on it since we need it?
7 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 6 Apr 2021
Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021

If you plan on using blessed, there’s also (blessed-contrib)[https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib], which is a library of widgets for blessed.

dashing

Posts with mentions or reviews of dashing. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-15.

Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021

[Sorry for the spam]
If you want to create charts quickly there's also: https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/dashing

What are some alternatives?

When comparing blessed-contrib and dashing you can also consider the following projects:

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

django-admin-list-charts - Super simple bar charts for django admin list views visualizing the number of objects based on date_hierarchy using Chart.js.

blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

hcclient - Cross-platform terminal client for hack.chat

Turbo Vision - A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

turbo - An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision.

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

hexabyte - A modern, modular, and robust TUI hex editor.

bitburner-scripts - Repository of Bitburner scripts