blessed-contrib vs rosshow

blessed-contrib

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

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Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art (by dheera)

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blessed-contrib		rosshow
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10	Mentions	3
15,403	Stars	1,019
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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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.

rosshow

Posts with mentions or reviews of rosshow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-11.

Introducing ROSboard: Visualizations in the web browser
2 projects | /r/ROS | 11 Jul 2021

I’m the author of ROSshow (GitHub - dheera/rosshow: Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art 3), which lets you visualize ROS topics with ASCII art.
Telnet Mapscii.me
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2021

I do something very similar in ROSshow for NavSatFix (GPS) messages: https://github.com/dheera/rosshow
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3.png...
It also has a pure ASCII mode:
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3-asc...
Unfortunately this utility isn't really usable outside of the context of robotics and ROS but one could extract the map rendering functionality and create a separate utility out if it if they wished.
The main difference in approach between this and Mapscii is that I actually just convert raster map tiles from OSM instead of using the vector data.
Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021

I built a visualization tool for ROS topics that uses Braille to achieve a dot-based interface in the terminal:
https://github.com/dheera/rosshow
I imagine a lot of it could also be re-used in creating terminal dashboards for other purposes.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

rosboard - ROS node that turns your robot into a web server to visualize ROS topics

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

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

mapscii - 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows

dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python

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.

bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.