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. (by Textualize)
rich-cli
Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal (by Textualize)
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| textual | rich-cli | |
|---|---|---|
| 149 | 29 | |
| 23,447 | 2,935 | |
| 1.8% | 0.7% | |
| 9.9 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 19 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
textual
Posts with mentions or reviews of textual.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.
- Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
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.
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PysimpleGUI
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.
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Using the Curses library on Windows - Terminal Display & Keys Input
For future projects that need a TUI beyond normal printing to a terminal, I'd recommend taking a look at Textual.
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"<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
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 -
logmerger - Text UI to view multiple log files with unified time scale
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.
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Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
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.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 21 August 2023
- Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python
rich-cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of rich-cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-12.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 12 February 2024
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Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland
I hope he doesn't mind, but the creator of Rich and Textualize is a good guy, and Scottish: https://www.willmcgugan.com/about/
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Code Feedback For OSINT Tool
You are using print statements too much. I understand the use due to it being a CLI application but still I suggest you look at textualize.
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coBib 4.0: a modern UI using Textualize libraries
For more than a year I have been refactoring coBib, getting rid of its original ncurses-based TUI in favor of a more modern and a lot more maintainable textual-based TUI. Developing it has been a lot of fun and I must say that the team over at Textualize is doing a great job at developing libraries which are somehow very powerful and extensible while still being easy to use!
- Is anyone still making text user interfaces for end users?
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Chatting with Will McGugan: From Side Project To Startup
Will McGugan is among the most well-known Python developers. He's the author of Rich, a library for formatting output in the terminal. It's used, among others, by pip, and has more than 40K stars on GitHub. In 2021, Will started building Textual, a TUI (text user interface) framework based on Rich. At the end of the year, he founded the company Textualize.
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Building the Future of the Command Line
The future of the command line is something along the lines of what these guys are doing:
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Textual is the only Python Terminal UI Framework you will need.
IF you ever wanted to build rich User Interfaces that work in the terminal with mouse support written in Python, then Textual is the Library for you.
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Is Nim a good language to write Linux TUI applications?
If you change your mind about Python there's textual+rich, https://www.textualize.io/.
- Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
What are some alternatives?
When comparing textual and rich-cli you can also consider the following projects:
pytermgui - Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)
pls - `pls` is a prettier and powerful `ls(1)` for the pros.
asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
term-keys - Lossless keyboard input for Emacs
npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.