bubbletea VS tcell

Compare bubbletea vs tcell and see what are their differences.

tcell

Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others. (by gdamore)
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bubbletea tcell
115 18
23,738 4,357
4.1% -
8.8 8.8
6 days ago 3 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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bubbletea

Posts with mentions or reviews of bubbletea. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

tcell

Posts with mentions or reviews of tcell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
  • go playground code doesn't work locally?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 2 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/gdamore/tcell s, err := tcell.NewScreen() // Clear screen s.Clear()
  • Help to find a terminal library
    3 projects | /r/golang | 12 Mar 2023
    I have used https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/ for github.com/raff/gio-games/arrows (look at game_term.go that is the terminal version, alternative to the gio/graphical version)
  • Problem Installing Go Modules
    1 project | /r/golang | 5 Feb 2023
    Hi im using linux (distro: Fedora 37) and I dont i have problems with installing go modules. When i run the commands in terminal (bash) "go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2" it gives me this error: "go: 'go install' requires a version when current directory is not in a module Try 'go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2@latest' to install the latest version" So when I run the command: "go install github.com/gdamore/tcell/vs@latest" I get this error: "package github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 is not a main package". Please someone help.
  • How to Create Console Screen Buffer in go?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Jan 2023
    Hi guys, I have fixed the problem. The problem was as stated: remove terminal behavior like when a key is pressed and held it does not work as needed. For example if I want to move character when user press key the player (character) will move one step then stops then move fast like text curser. The solution is not by using [Console Screen Buffer] the Tcell is enough, But the problem is caused by the way the input is read from the user as u/pekim says in comments it is a "Typical behaviour in most environments (not just Windows)". So to fix this you need to use windows API (w32) and read key using GetAsyncKeyState() that will fix the problem.
  • Need a TUI with multiline text input or good interactive CLI-interface style support
    6 projects | /r/golang | 21 Jul 2022
    There's quite a variety of tui libraries in Go with all kinds of different tradeoffs. Likely you won't find one that does just exactly what you want (paren matching support seems particularly unlikely out of the box, dunno if you'll find something you can plug in). tview and the underlying, lower-level tcell may be useful. I see termbox mentioned a lot here though that looks more like a toolbox for building such things than a solution itself.
  • Which Go frameworks are recommended to assist with the creation of console based UI and GUI?
    5 projects | /r/golang | 21 May 2022
    There's also tcell
  • TUIs
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2022
    How about some libraries that help with building TUIs?

    I'll start with https://github.com/gdamore/tcell

  • Monotty Desktopio - Text-based desktop environment inside your terminal
    12 projects | /r/commandline | 7 Feb 2022
    (notcurses is the first in C, and currently best globally. The first in Rust might be tui-rs. The first in Go might be tcell.)
  • tcell VS FINAL CUT - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 1 Jan 2022
  • Snake game implementation.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 20 Oct 2021
    a Snake Game implication in Go using 2d array. https://github.com/twiny/snaky it runs on terminal window using github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2/termbox to render Snake movement.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bubbletea and tcell you can also consider the following projects:

Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs - Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang

termbox-go - Pure Go termbox implementation

pterm - ✨ #PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more 🚀 It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.

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

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

termui - Golang terminal dashboard

gocui - Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.

textual - The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

tui-go