textual VS rich

Compare textual vs rich and see what are their differences.

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)
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textual rich
149 148
23,447 46,981
1.8% 0.9%
9.9 8.3
6 days ago 5 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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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.

rich

Posts with mentions or reviews of rich. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-25.
  • Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024
  • Neat Parallel Output in Python
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
    There is an open issue [1] on GitHub to make it more modular and get rid of markdown and syntax highlighting but I have no hope for rich to get more minimal.

    [1]: https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/2277

  • Ask HN: Programmers and Technologists in Scotland
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    I hope he doesn't mind, but the creator of Rich and Textualize is a good guy, and Scottish: https://www.willmcgugan.com/about/

    https://www.textualize.io/

    https://github.com/Textualize/rich

  • Python 3.12
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
    They keep getting improved error messaging and this is one of my favorite features. But I'd love if we could get some real rich text. Idk if anyone else uses rich, but it has infected all my programs now. Not just to print with colors, but because it makes debugging so much easier. Not just print(f"{var=}") but the handler[0,1]. Color is so important to these types of things and so is formatting. Plus, the progress bars are nice and have almost completely replaced tqdm for me[2]. They're just easier and prettier.

    [0] https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/logging.html

    [1] Try this example: https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/examples/exce...

    [2] Side note: does anyone know how to get these properly working when using DDP with pytorch? I get flickering when using this and I think it is actually down to a pytorch issue and how they're handling their loggers and flushing the screen. I know pytorch doesn't want to depend on rich, but hey, pip uses rich so why shouldn't everyone?

  • colors.crumb - first Crumb usable. Extending Crumb with basic terminal styling and RGB, HEX, ANSI conversion functions.
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 9 Sep 2023
    colors.crumb extends Crumb with basic terminal styling functions and RGB, HEX, ANSI conversion functions. It is in the realm of JavaScript's chalk and Python's rich but slightly more functional 😉.
  • Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
    I am working on a new python project and one of the first things I added was https://github.com/Textualize/rich because of how easy it is to make things look good in the terminal.
  • What are you rewriting in rust?
    36 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2023
    I am not rewriting anything but I'd love to have a library like `rich` in Rust: https://github.com/textualize/rich
  • Things to do with standalone script
    3 projects | /r/learnpython | 15 Jun 2023
    Add some cool-looking stuff to your output with rich.
  • I made a library for making user terminal input really really pretty!
    3 projects | /r/Python | 3 Jun 2023
    You might consider taking inspiration from the rich module. In particular, I like how rich supports inline color theming which seems much more cumbersome in your framework, requiring the use of context managers as well as familiarity with how your framework structures color objects. Other than that though, I'm impressed!
  • coBib 4.0: a modern UI using Textualize libraries
    4 projects | /r/Python | 20 May 2023
    Today I released coBib 4.0, my console bibliography manager written in Python, which now uses rich and textual to provide a cohesive and modern user experience in both its CLI and TUI.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing textual and rich 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!

tqdm - :zap: A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations

blessed - Blessed is an easy, practical library for making python terminal apps

npyscreen - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/npyscreen

alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

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