textual VS blessed

The Textual project has a lot of screenshots in its documentation. These screenshots are built with the docs, so they are always up to date.

https://textual.textualize.io/

Textual[0] does this for CLI apps. That’s not for full GUI apps, but it’s very DOM-like, uses CSS selectors, etc. and a cool option when it meets your needs.

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual

For future projects that need a TUI beyond normal printing to a terminal, I'd recommend taking a look at Textual.

https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/code-outputs.html#...

`less -R` is not the default.

FWIW, textual (and urwid) does ANSII escape codes well: https://github.com/Textualize/textual

  touch file$'\n'name

After installing logmerger, you can run a self-contained demo by running logmerger --demo, to view two log files before and after they are merged, and to play with the user-interface features provided by textual.

I think it just survived naturally, filling in the cracks left by Java / C++.

And not the era of Textual (https://textual.textualize.io/) is here, python may get the spotlight even more.

I found blessed but it seems like it was last updated 8 years ago. So what are my options?

So far I found this library github.com/chjj/blessed which is very powerful, I need to render animated charts and other complex objects and for my purpose it is doing well.

Alas https://github.com/chjj/blessed/issues/418#issuecomment-1533...

I considered blessed for a recent project, but ended up just simplifying the approach & making do with Inquirer + Meow instead due to the maintenance status. Haven't found anything else equivalent to blessed, other than Ink.

Inquirer is still probably the library that is most similar, if you are looking for comparisons to existing tools. My goal was to create a set of tools that uses the terminal window for a single operation at a time. The UI providing as much contextual information as possible to the user to know what actions they can perform, and any relevant information. A bit like a "choose your adventure" via terminal app sort of thing. Explicitly trying to stay clear of full screen and dashboard type stuff, like what blessed provides.

Not exactly a shell scripting framework, but y’all should check out blessed js. Weirdly enough I just found it yesterday and shit goes absolutely wild in the terminal

Perhaps you’d like a terminal based UI? https://github.com/chjj/blessed

You can build them from scratch, or use one of many specialized libraries on NPM, like commander, yargs, blessed, terminal kit, prompts, and many more.

This is where libraries come in: https://github.com/chjj/blessed - this allows you to manage rendering in the terminal on your own, so you can have a scrolling box of text at the top and a "command line" at the bottom.

I was hoping to write my app in Rust as a learning exercise, but my alternative is https://www.npmjs.com/package/blessed, which is NodeJS. Ah well.

Using this https://github.com/chjj/blessed