Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python

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  1. textual

    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.

    Did a cursory dive through, check: https://textual.textualize.io/tutorial/ and https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/docs/example...

    ...what have people had success with in golang-world? Anything reasonably equivalent someone could recommend? There's a fair amount of "stuff" for TUI's in golang, the thing that's very attractive about 'textualize' is it feels very "web-browser-y" and has a nice (scrollable!) table view.

    `tview` seems interesting (eg: check `brew install dbui`), but feels a bit more like _you're_ doing all the imperative `if KeyPress.A: do_something()` instead of declarative, nesting navigation, etc. (perhaps that's the difference between an "application-centric/SPA" view of "control all the things!" vs. a document centric: "add components to a page and let them flow").

    Any feedback on the items in this list? https://codeberg.org/tecras/awesome-go#advanced-console-uis

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  3. Lanterna

    Java library for creating text-based GUIs

  4. textual-paint

    :art: MS Paint in your terminal.

    My favourite Textual demo at the moment is this one: https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint

    It's a very decent Microsoft Paint imitation that runs in your terminal!

  5. rich

    Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

    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.

  6. termui

    Golang terminal dashboard

    I used termui for a project and have no complaints.

    https://github.com/gizak/termui

  7. console

    A rust console and terminal abstraction (by console-rs)

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