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Turbo Vision
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
> Someone took the time to rewrite [port] it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
I just now came across the following related to Turbo Vision:
> TuiCss is a library focused to create web applications using an interface based on ASCII table, like the old MS-DOS applications. ...... The base of this project is Turbo Vision Framework, but some other frameworks were also checked to introduce some features to TuiCss, like curses, ncurses, Newt, etc.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/tuicss
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot which is unfortunate since that is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
To find more:
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
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These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like:
* `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/
* `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
* `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/
I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming.
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Some which I use: lf, neomutt, moc/mocp, newsboat, fzf. Screenshots for some: https://nunosempere.com/blog/2023/03/27/soothing-software/
to a lesser extent: btop, htop (but I find the shortcuts confusing), csvlens (https://github.com/YS-L/csvlens), lynx (elinks, links).
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If you do any work with K8s, k9s is a handy tool.
https://k9scli.io/
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cointop
Discontinued A fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies 🚀
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SaaSHub
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hof
Framework that joins data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine. Language and technology agnostic.
I recently built a TUI for exploring and developing CUE, JSON, Yaml.
Large inspiration for the overall UX comes from the Bloomberg terminal, where every function is reachable with four letter shortcut from the command box. It was really the command box that I liked. I've also built a sort of "flex" panel component for the layout so you can create as many panels as you like.
https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/hof-tui/
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/lib/tui
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https://github.com/jonas/tig is one of the first things I install on a new dev machine. It's a really nice UI for staging files or hunks. Since it's just a companion to the git CLI, it feels much more focused than full-blown git GUIs, and doesn't do anything magical.
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As someone who writes software for moderately boring business operations, I've been wondering making terminal-based apps with lots of keyboard shortcuts would lead to a more productive end user than writing a web app.
I've been looking at https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui but haven't tried it yet.
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htop is great, but I've migrated to bottom which has a very similar interface with "btm --basic".
[1] https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
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Sounds like something comparable to LazyGit. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
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lazydocker [0] is by the same author as lazygit. I'm thoroughly familiar with the Docker CLI, but sometimes it's just easier to use a GUI or TUI for some things. In particular, I use lazydocker for cleaning up volumes or images that may no longer be needed.
[0] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker
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vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
Some alternatives:
* `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/
* `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
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Some alternatives:
* `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/
* `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
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kalc
a complex numbers, 2d/3d graphing, arbitrary precision, vector/matrix, cli calculator with real-time output and support for units
I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot which is unfortunate since that is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
To find more:
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
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awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv
The largest Awesome Curated list of command line programs (CLI/TUI) with source data organized into CSV files
I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot which is unfortunate since that is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
To find more:
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
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I have used this https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/ to TUI design, it's "React" for TUI. It's pretty good but I had to add a bit of sub-process parallelization since I have a long running process in the background.
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elia
A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
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I'm a maintainer of Ratatui (a rust TUI crate). Here's a few links
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui
https://discord.com/channels/1070692720437383208/10729061831... (made with ratatui channel on our discord server)
We encourage our users to use https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs to build out demos that look neat.
My particular favorite of the bunch (from a look and feel perspective) is https://github.com/zaghaghi/openapi-tui
Also, not ratatui, but worth a look: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
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I'm a maintainer of Ratatui (a rust TUI crate). Here's a few links
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui
https://discord.com/channels/1070692720437383208/10729061831... (made with ratatui channel on our discord server)
We encourage our users to use https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs to build out demos that look neat.
My particular favorite of the bunch (from a look and feel perspective) is https://github.com/zaghaghi/openapi-tui
Also, not ratatui, but worth a look: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
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I'm a maintainer of Ratatui (a rust TUI crate). Here's a few links
https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/
https://github.com/ratatui-org/awesome-ratatui
https://discord.com/channels/1070692720437383208/10729061831... (made with ratatui channel on our discord server)
We encourage our users to use https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs to build out demos that look neat.
My particular favorite of the bunch (from a look and feel perspective) is https://github.com/zaghaghi/openapi-tui
Also, not ratatui, but worth a look: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
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TinyMUSH (which is somewhere between TinyMUD and TinyMUSE if my historic memory is correct): https://github.com/TinyMUSH/TinyMUSH
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I've built a TUI for terraform:
https://github.com/leg100/pug
It's built using Go and the bubbletea library. It's been a breath of fresh air compared to building a web app, simpler and faster to develop and test. And of course far more responsive than a web app could ever be.
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There is https://github.com/directvt/vtm
It used to have a site where you could just connect via ssh and see interact with it in all its glory.
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imtui looks interesting. A text based backend for Dear ImGui. Never tested it myself though.
https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui
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I have, and I did: https://github.com/AdrianVollmer/Congruence
I consider it MeWare: written for me, but published for others to use because why not? But don't expect a polished product.
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tvterm: A Turbo Vision based terminal emulator: https://github.com/magiblot/tvterm
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As a sound and music computing person, I rarely used tui before although I use cli tools often, e.g. SoX. I usually use Audacity to record on Mac. But then I realized I wanted a tool that could quickly open and record inspiration, and that's when TUI came into play: I decided to write my own custom tool called asak (audio Swiss Army Knife) [1]
This way I can quickly record on Mac, and of course, since this is Rust and ratatui [2], this tool should also be cross-platform.
[1] https://github.com/chaosprint/asak
[2] https://ratatui.rs/
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ratatui
Discontinued Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 [Moved to: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui] (by ratatui-org)
As a sound and music computing person, I rarely used tui before although I use cli tools often, e.g. SoX. I usually use Audacity to record on Mac. But then I realized I wanted a tool that could quickly open and record inspiration, and that's when TUI came into play: I decided to write my own custom tool called asak (audio Swiss Army Knife) [1]
This way I can quickly record on Mac, and of course, since this is Rust and ratatui [2], this tool should also be cross-platform.
[1] https://github.com/chaosprint/asak
[2] https://ratatui.rs/
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slartboz-pub
Slartboz: sci-fi, post-apoc, dystopic comedy, real-time Roguelike adventure game under dev. for public or promotional material only
Slartboz is my real-time action adventure Rogue-like set in Normerika 2100 CE after democracy collapse and climate catastrophe. Written in Golang. Uses ncurses for visuals and VLC for sound and music. I try to push the bounds on whats possible and what you'd expect from a Terminal-based TUI game.
https://github.com/mkramlich/slartboz-pub
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The Logfile Navigator (https://lnav.org) is a log file viewer/merger/tailer for the terminal. It has some advanced UX features, like showing previews of operations and displaying context sensitive help. For example, the preview for filtering out logs by regex is to highlight the lines that will be hidden in red. This can make crafting the right regex a bit easier since the preview updates as you type. lnav also has some simple bar charting abilities, so you can visualize the results of SQL queries made against the log messages.
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- For Dired, there is Casual Dired https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired
All can be run in a TTY to get that TUI experience.
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- For Dired, there is Casual Dired https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired
All can be run in a TTY to get that TUI experience.
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Not forgotten by any means but goaccess is nice and simple to use
https://goaccess.io/
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How about this software I wrote back in college to manage beauty parlors?
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/beautyhair
The text is in PT but I guess you can understand it. I loved writing those CLI applications in Java back then.
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
A Microsoft employee recently (~6 months) opened a Github issue to discuss a command line editor for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440
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twin
Text mode window environment. A "retro" program for embedded or remote systems, that doubles as X11 terminal and text-mode equivalent of VNC server
In the same TUI spirit:
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
A text mode environment and window manager, with terminal emulation, VNC-style sessions and viewers, and networked clients.
Disclaimer: I'm the author
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Euporie is the most complex TUI application I have built:
https://github.com/joouha/euporie
It consists of a TUI editor (and interactive REPL) for Jupyter notebooks, and supports displaying rich output in the terminal (images, LaTeX, HTML, interactive widgets, etc.).
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A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary.
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How about this music chord formation program with a virtual six-string guitar fret that I wrote back in 1999? https://github.com/capr/chordclopedia
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