Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer

• textual

  149 23,543 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.

  

Textual is a project I started in 2021 to build a TUI framework on top of Rich.

I did a Show HN back in August 21: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106389

At the time, it was purely a hobby project, but a lot has happened since then. I was VC funded (nobody was more surprised than me) and since January, Textual has been my full-time gig.

This version adds a CSS renderer and more powerful layout engine, which enables some really interesting features such as live editing.

We've also added a websockets based console app for logging, which restores print style debugging when testing your TUI.

This release has documentation. Which you can find here:

https://textual.textualize.io/

Github repository:

https://github.com/Textualize/textual

Textual is still very much a work in progress, but it is way more stable now.

Textualize (the company) is currently 3 developers based in Edinburgh, Scotland. We recently hired dev no.3 and we have a fourth starting this year.

• reloadium

  138 2,701 5.0 Python

  Hot Reloading and Profiling for Python

  

Here's another startup, with a founder that also spent a year working on the super-hard problem of...Python hot reloading/profiling: https://reloadium.io

Hooking these two up would make for a neat programming experience. Best of all...if some $$ €€ were involved, it would show Python open source can be sustainable.

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• tui-rs

  68 10,829 4.7 Rust

  Discontinued Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

tui-rs[0] is the closest equivalent. It's like the pre-css version of textual.

[0] -- https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

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