Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

1. Ink

   1 72 28,641 6.9 TypeScript

   🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

   

   Ink is amazing for quickly hacking together TUIs. I recently did so with Nbb (Node Babashka) and and enjoyed the experience overall.

   My only real complaint is how everything in your VDOM seems to re-render on a state change. IIRC this is being addressed [1], but is something to be mindful of, especially if your users may be using slow machines.

   [1] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/issues/21

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3. dioxus

   2 170 27,477 9.8 Rust

   Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

   

   There is also Rink, a Rust port of Ink that uses Dioxus instead of React for the high-level API https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/ri...

4. bubbletea

   3 128 31,404 9.1 Go

   A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

   

   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

5. ratatui

   4 58 9,517 9.7 Rust

   Discontinued Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 [Moved to: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui] (by ratatui-org)

   

6. blessed

   5 23 11,463 0.0 JavaScript

   A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

   

   I tried this a long time ago when I was in love with react. It felt difficult to wrap my head around the yoga layout engine. I'm glad others here in this thread seem to like yoga, but I didn't. And, now I really dislike react for various reasons.

   I would use this if I needed to write a command line app with nodejs:

   https://github.com/chjj/blessed

7. emoj

   6 6 2,384 4.9 TypeScript

   Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line :open_mouth: :sparkles: :raised_hands: :horse: :boom: :see_no_evil:

   

   Check the list of apps using it.

   This one got my attention: https://github.com/sindresorhus/emoj

   I do use emojipedia.org quite often, so I must admit I find this would be quite useful :D. But the thought of having a framework like React powering this behind the scenes, right on my freaking terminal, makes me think that there's no hope for future generations to keep software development simple, "lean" for the foreseeable future. Imagine using 100MB to search for emojis.

8. react-blessed

   7 5 4,475 0.0 JavaScript

   A react renderer for blessed.

   

   I'll need to try Ink but you were also able to do this with react + blessed via https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

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10. textual

    8 165 28,647 10.0 Python

    Lean TUI application framework for Python. Build sophisticated terminal user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

    

    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

11. tui-rs

    9 68 10,829 4.7 Rust

    Discontinued Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

    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

12. taffy

    10 38 2,457 8.9 Rust

    A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

    

    I maintain a library (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy) that implements both Flexbox and CSS Grid, and is designed to be easily embedded (similar to Yoga, which Ink is using).

13. clog

    11 153 1,622 8.4 Common Lisp

    CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

    

14. ink

    12 169 4,349 5.0 C#

    inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative. (by inkle)

    

    "Ink" and "interactive" in the same sentence has a strong association in my mind for Inkle's Ink [1]

    [1]: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

15. hooks

    13 1 6 10.0 Haskell

    FRP-ish / Reactive programming inspired by React hooks (by benweitzman)

    

    Pretty neat. I adapted the state management of hooks to Haskell a few years ago. Could be used for similar purposes, but there's no support for templating or styling yet: https://github.com/benweitzman/hooks

16. autarky

    14 1 361 2.6 TypeScript

    Liberating disk space from 📁 node_modules | Built with React

    

    I have built a CLI tool called Autarky a long long time back https://github.com/pranshuchittora/autarky.

    Ink is great to get bare minimums up and running, but the capabilities are quite limited and you can't build full blown interactive dashboards with this like HTOP etc.

17. mosaic

    15 22 2,334 9.7 Kotlin

    Build terminal UI in Kotlin using Jetpack Compose (by JakeWharton)

    

    There's also Mosaic, which is an experiment of sorts to build console UI using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose: https://github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic

18. react-ionize

    16 1 1,205 10.0 JavaScript

    A React renderer for building your entire Electron app

    

    One of my favorite side projects (from several years ago now) was a custom renderer implementation that let one use React to manage the parts of an Electron app outside the page being rendered. [1] I never found the time to actually go through and make it robust enough to use in a production setting, but I remember being very pleased with how much easier it was to use than the native Electron APIs.

    Maybe I'll revisit this sometime. :)

    1: https://github.com/mhink/react-ionize

19. devtools-ds

    17 1 259 2.7 TypeScript

    UI components, libraries, and templates for building robust devtools experiences.

    

20. meow

    18 5 3,582 7.0 JavaScript

    🐈 CLI app helper

    

21. Inquirer.js

    19 42 20,810 9.6 TypeScript

    A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

    

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