textual VS typer

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

As someone that use both Python and Rust, it's hard to motivate myself to write TUI in Rust, because with Python we have the amazing textual.

I would also[0] be interested in an argparse equivalent of this for my tool Library[1]

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/discussions/228

[1] https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library

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.

I don't think it is exactly what you're looking for, but Textual will be supporting something close to what I think you're after, soon. https://github.com/Textualize/textual

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

I guess you looked at it a while ago because the docs are quite detailed with lots of examples.

There are plenty of terminal UI libraries that are actually nice to work with. For Python, there's Textual and PyTermGUI. For Rust, there's ratatui and Cursive (or, if you want something a bit lower level, crosster or termion). For Go, there's bubbletea.

Concerning your roadmap, you might wanna take some inspiration from Textual, it's a really mordern approach to TUIs. I understand that the level of abstraction is high and might be tasking to implement many of the ideas in there in C... and please fgs, don't think about doing the CSS shit.

Similarly for Typer, which is literally "the FastAPI of CLIs"[1]. Handy to type your `main` parameters and have CLI argument parsing. For more complicated cases, it's a wrapper around Click.

[1] https://typer.tiangolo.com/

interesting that you hate python, but love Click. Did you try Typer which uses Click underneath?

Try to make it into a command line tool? check https://typer.tiangolo.com/ for example

I used this template repo to make a bash cli https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/bash-cli then I made a brew formula to make it installable. It provide a nice way to make a cli with nested commands like git. As others mentioned other languages like python have great support for making nice clis see https://typer.tiangolo.com/ for an example framework in python. I chose bash because packaging a python cli for a private brew package is a pain and 99% of what I needed the cli to do was inkoke other clis, so bash made sense for my case.

Very cool. I’ve been using Typer lately. Easy to give a library a cli without too much boilerplate.

Check out Typer for the command line tooling, might make it a bit easier to maintain later on!

tried typer? built on top of click. i still use mostly argparse but started using typer as well. so far so good

In this post i will discuss about how to create beautiful CLI Tools using library call typer with this library we can create amazing CLI Tools with that

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