Lanterna
tui-rs
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2,198 | 10,829 | |
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7.2 | 4.7 | |
about 2 months ago | 9 months ago | |
Java | Rust | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Lanterna
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Textual Web: TUIs for the Web
I wrote a TUI before for work, entirely of my own volition and for my own near-exclusive consumption (it was theoretically for anyone, but I'm the only person who would've had a reason to look at it - we were a fairly silo'd dev shop).
This is what made me pick TUI over a web UI:
* no web stack, period. no client/server. no js or html. this simplified the problem dramatically. also, no additional services to babysit.
* no browser - no certificates, security, auth, etc. It's just unix permissions and ssh.
* there's something comforting about the constraints of just ASCII/ANSI and curses. No bikeshedding over border widths or radii when it's just you picking among a few characters for the shape. just having less decisions to make speeds things up and helps you focus on what you actually want the UI to be able to do.
Obviously if your app is just calling APIs anyway, that might be negate some of these bullets about no additional services to babysit etc. In this case, it was running an internal infra app that directly connected to a pg db.
And what made me pick it over just having a CLI:
* discoverability - it was a complicated app and while it was all technically exposed via cli flags, having a GUI made it a lot easier to figure out what the right incantation is.
* richer communication medium that's back-and-forth instead of unidirectional. The TUI is able to fetch a list of e.g. valid IDs and let you pick them with a check-list, instead of you having to go query the db yourself and type them in.
I consider it one of my greatest victories that my boss was able to use the TUI to recover from an incident without needing to page me while I was on holiday, and he said he barely had to read the docs and felt confident he was getting it right the first time. "I did it while sipping my coffee."
I used https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna - would recommend. They even have a Swing-based emulation mode for easy development iteration running it from intelliJ.
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Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python
This looks really cool.
In the past I used lanterna (https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/tree/master) to develop a text UI for a critical process at the trading firm I worked at. It was essentially a process that would take updated market data and handle things that changed between the last trading session and today - like symbol renames (PCLN to BKNG), changes to market cap that make it change what "category" it fell into (they were based on market cap and volatility measures etc). Things of that nature, that the realtime system didn't handle but happened too often or were too hairy for us to just handle manually.
The system had a desktop UI component that was oriented towards use by our trading staff. We didn't really have notion of a "server UI" and the server was headless.
Nobody at our firm was a frontend developer, just backend, systems and data programmers who occasionally dabbled in frontend. So web UIs were very simplistic or highly specific to their use-case, we had no shared tooling.
In 2023 with things like create-react-app and whatever next.js does, I probably would've opted for one of those. I could've made another desktop app but I wanted to be able to easily get to this from a shitty ssh connection over tethered 4g when I was on-call. So X11 forwarding and RDP were out. So i looked around for a TUI-builder in the project's language, Java.
What i really liked about Lanterna was that it had a Swing-based implementation which meant I could easily run it from IntelliJ, and that would let me iterate rapidly, and then in production I could run it in a terminal via SSH directly on the machine the server was on (which had certain advantages).
I'll keep an eye on this to see if I can think of anything neat to build on it. I still generally don't like web apps because they feel like they take a lot of effort to get something compared to a functionally-equivalent product built in something non-browser-based like a TUI or desktop GUI.
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What options are there for making GUIs and other visual programs using java?
Just to differ what others already mentioned: Lanterna. Pretty retro GUIs just for fun.
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Library like Python Rich
Lanterna https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna Has examples for most of the things you're looking for (see links in https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/blob/master/docs/contents.md)
- Terminal Design Through Java.
- Nimwave – build TUIs for the terminal, web, and desktop
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How to modify lines in console (Java 8)
You can use a library such as https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna to do fancy console printing. You could even do full console UIs, but just printing lines and moving the cursor and so on is also possible I think.
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Aquifer: GUI generator for command line apps
There is lanterna for that.
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Textual in Clojure?
You can use https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna
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What are some features necessary in an ASCII-graphics library?
Is this just a personal excercise? Because https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna is pretty much what you're talking about and pretty good.
tui-rs
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Trippy – A Network Diagnostic Tool
The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library.
[0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui
[1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
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Projectable: A TUI file manager built for projects
Rust has great libraries for TUIs. tui-rs (https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) has been used in numerous popular applications, but is unmaintained. ratatui (https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) is the maintained version, and is pretty new. Less widely known is cursive (https://github.com/gyscos/cursive), which I have yet to try.
Aside from the libraries, I just wanted to start a project that would make be better at Rust. The easy distribution with cargo is a huge bonus though.
- ratatui 0.21.0 is released! (community fork of tui-rs)
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Looking for advice around project direction using artix-web
CLI, use Clap. If you want to get fancy, use Tui.
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[Media] Introducing Trippy: A Network Diagnostic Tool
u/lordnacho666 It uses the fabulous https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs (now revived as https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) TUI lib.
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Introducing TUI-Journal: Your Personal Journal/Notes App for Terminal Enthusiasts
This app is based on the these two crate in rust (tui-rs , tui-textarea). The text area provide the Emacs motions and I integrated the vim motions there, but the editor in this app as much simpler than the huge VIM and Emacs systems
If you interested in the TUI apps in rust you can start with the crate tui-rs or its revival ratatui. They have examples inside of them which you can start and see the source code to get the basic functionalities. For the text editor you can check examples in the crate tui-textarea.
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Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
For Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3].
[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
[2] https://github.com/textualize/textual
[3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
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Building a task manager app on CLI similar to "top" command in Linux, how to add a feature to kill processes via process ID?
You can check tui-rs, is a library to build CLI interfaces and has some examples about using user input without blocking the UI
- [Rust] Si vous voulez relancer la caisse `` Tui`, rejoignez-nous!
What are some alternatives?
CQEngine - Ultra-fast SQL-like queries on Java collections
crossterm - Cross platform terminal library rust
Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8 - Modern Java - A Guide to Java 8
Cursive - A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language
jcurses - Java Curses implementation
pancurses - A Rust curses library, supports Unix platforms and Windows
LightAdmin - [PoC] Pluggable CRUD UI library for Java web applications
Termion - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion
Jimfs - An in-memory file system for Java 7+
monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.
JBake - Java based open source static site/blog generator for developers & designers.
rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.