Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps

• trogon

  10 2,339 7.5 Python

  Easily turn your Click CLI into a powerful terminal application

  

• sqlite-utils

  35 1,498 8.4 Python

  Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases

This is really fun. I have an experimental branch of my sqlite-utils CLI tool (which has dozens of sub-commands) running with this now and it really did only take 4 lines of code - I'm treating Trogon as an optional dependency because people using my package as a Python library rather than a CLI tool may not want the extra installed components:

https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/commit/ec12b780d5dcd6...

There's an animated GIF demo of the result here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/545#issuecomme...

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• parachute

  1 - -

This looks interesting, I love Textual so I tried this with one of the apps I wrote:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/parachute

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work, failing to find the `cli.command()` function (a group function) after I decorate `cli()` with @tui...

• oil

  234 2,720 9.9 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

I believe something of this nature was proposed in the Oilshell under the name Shellac[0]. A shell-agnostic autocompletion format so that the world could finally move on from writing bespoke completion protocols for every new shell language.

[0] https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shellac-Protocol-Propos...

• tldr

  262 48,406 10.0 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

You should check out https://tldr.sh/ It gives you practical examples for common use cases.

• uplaybook

  5 6 9.3 Python

  A python-centric IT automation system.

This is exactly my current experiment on a personal project I'm working on, though I'm trying to create a Textual UI on a dynamic Python argparse CLI. Creating a Textual UI is non-trivial.

My tool uPlaybook[0] is kind of a CookieCutter [1] / Ansible [2] mashup, and the playbooks typically would have a number of "slots" you can configure to control the templating, like project name, license, if you want to "git init", that sort of thing.

It currently auto-generates a argparse interface, or it can interactively ask you those questions. But I've been working on a Textual UI as well. I chose argparse over Click largely because I want to work with minimal dependencies, and the Textual UI would be an optional dependency.

Going to have to check this guy out.

[0] https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook

• Ansible

  390 61,137 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

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• cheat.sh

  140 37,443 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

• hsh

  1 14 9.4 Zig

  better shell

oh, that's not really type annotations; that's just... cli linting? no idea what to call it but something that will both highlight errors in commands before they fail, and suggest intelligent tab completes.

I want that too, I've already started building it https://github.com/GrayHatter/hsh give me a few months :)

• textual

  149 23,495 9.9 Python

  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.

  

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

• library

  15 158 9.7 Python

  An index for your archive. 70+ CLI tools to help you build, browse, and manage your media library. (by chapmanjacobd)

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

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