termdbms VS bubbletea

Don't use a Mac, but would add to readme if someone had the wherewithal

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms/issues/8

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

Granted I'm the author, but until I get around to rewriting it from the ground up, I really think it saves a lot of time for editing single cells, querying, and viewing in a headless environment.

One of my favorite TUI frameworks. I made https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms with it. A very pleasant experience.

I made a headless sqlite dbms (not nearly as feature rich as the real thing) for my own embedded development. It can show the values of any table, view specific cells, update cells with a text editor interface, beautifies json, and takes in SQL queries as well.

Got some bugs with formatting complex lines of text, but it works well enough for me. I plan on porting to Rust one of these days.

https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

Been seeing lots of cool TUIs built with ratatui. Can anyone offer a comparison between ratatui and Golang https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea?

I've been wanting to get into building a TUI but can't decide which library to pick.

From Charm comes the new fun, functional, and stateful way to build interactive terminal applications. Bubble Tea is text user interface (TUI) framework built using the Go framework. Bubble Tea has been used to create all kinds of fun programs including ASCII movie art, a CLI for ChatGPT, ordering coffee from the command line, and loads more. Congrats to the team on shipping the big 1.0 🥳.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but there's Shell in a Box (see https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox), that can create a terminal on a web page, and expose an actual terminal application running on a server.

One thing that is certainly doable is also to use a standard TUI framework in another language (there are many of them, e.g. https://github.com/magiblot/tvision for C++, https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea for Go, etc.), compile it to WASM, and find how to bridge the WASM output to the browser (I've seen this: https://github.com/cryptool-org/wasm-webterm, but never tried it).

I have to agree. At first I loved the idea of bubbletea but I have given up on using it because I feel it is too immature. There are some poor/unfinished design choices that make widgets from different authors take different approaches. Layouting is very difficult as this is not part of the framework and depends on often half-baked third party widgets. Theres this discussion where there seems to be very little movement from the authors to improve the situation (also linked from OP's blogpost).

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/discussions/434

As we started to flesh out our CLI, we also wanted to test edge cases and detect regressions. I surveyed public cobra/bubbletea based CLIs to look for ideas, and found frustratingly few tests. Then we stumbled upon Charm's teatest which gave us a starting point.

Seems like they're using Bubble Tea, a Terminal UI framework for Go. I've heard very good things about it and have been meaning to check it out.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

I recommend looking at the charm libraries. Lip gloss https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss can provide the styling and bubble tea can handle the screen updates and framework https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea there is a premade progress bar component in bubbles library. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles