Terminal

Open-source projects categorized as Terminal
Edit details
Language: + Python + Rust + TypeScript + Shell + Go + C++ + Markdown + Java
Topics: CLI Command-line TUI Shell Linux
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
workos.com
Sponsored

Top 23 Terminal Open-Source Projects

  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

    • Project mention: Terminal commands I use as a frontend developer | dev.to | 2024-03-09

    That’s the minimum terminal setup. You can modify the look and add plugins such as autocompletion to your terminal by installing ohmyzsh and using themes such as powerlevel10k. I am already using them.

  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

    • Project mention: Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

    > convince management of the value

    This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.

    There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.

    Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:

    https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

    A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:

    > I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

    Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Alternative to Putty for Multiple Sites? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    • Project mention: Terminal Latency | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-19

    It's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project.

    Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem)

    https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen...

    It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.

  • tldr

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Is there a GUI for bash shell? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19

    Maybe this already helps: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

  • rich

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

    • Project mention: Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    • Project mention: Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed' | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

    That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.

    [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

    WorkOS logo

  • lazygit

    simple terminal UI for git commands

    • Project mention: Why Don't I Like Git More? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-05

    I've started to en ntegrate lazygit into my workflow.

    It's quite easy to work with and I use git in a more powerfull way. My main problem is finding the way in all hotkeys.

    https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit?tab=readme-ov-file#...

  • hyperterm

    A terminal built on web technologies

    • Project mention: Terminal commands I use as a frontend developer | dev.to | 2024-03-09

    I am using iTerm2 on my macOS. Other available options are Hyper and VS Code’s inbuilt terminal, which I sometimes use for quick tests. You can open a terminal in VS Code by using the keyboard shortcut CMD + J or CTRL + J on Windows, or View → Terminal.

  • cheat.sh

    the only cheat sheet you need

    • Project mention: Ask HN: What are your go to shell one-liners? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

    curl https://cheat.sh/$1

  • httpie

    🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

    • Project mention: Personas - an Ai Assistant | dev.to | 2024-04-14

    tested the end points using httpie and sometime curl

  • fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    • Project mention: Level Up Your Dev Workflow: Conquer Web Development with a Blazing Fast Neovim Setup (Part 1) | dev.to | 2024-03-16

    ripgrep: A super-fast file searcher. You can install it using your system's package manager (e.g., brew install ripgrep on macOS). fd: Another blazing-fast file finder. Installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

  • termux-app

    Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

    • Project mention: Utilize AI-powered Tools Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Q in Visual Studio Code on Android Devices | dev.to | 2024-01-23

    Download Termux latest version.

  • modern-unix

    A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Which tools are worth the time? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-12

    - Learning "modern" tools like ripgrep and fzf (There's a list here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix)

  • tqdm

    :zap: A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

    • Project mention: Neat Parallel Output in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

    yeah my code needs to use multiprocessing, which does not play nice with tqdm. thanks for the tip about positions though, that helped me search more effectively and came up with two promising comments. unmerged / require some workarounds, but might just work:

    https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/issues/1000#issuecomment-184208...

  • glances

    Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

    • Project mention: Homelab Adventures: Crafting a Personal Tech Playground | dev.to | 2024-04-22

    Glances

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

    • Project mention: FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor – via a project dev | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-29

    Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

    https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

  • autocomplete

    IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

    • Project mention: Fig Is Sunsetting | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14

  • iTerm2-Color-Schemes

    Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

    • Project mention: Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-08

    I took a recent go at designing a good terminal color scheme and ended up with:

    https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes#aardvark-b...

    The goal of this theme is that:

        colors are fairly natural

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

    • Project mention: Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

  • wttr.in

    :partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather

    • Project mention: Wttr.in Is Down | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-11

  • textual

    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.

    • Project mention: Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-05

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

    • Project mention: Just How Much Faster Are the Gnome 46 Terminals? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-08

    And kitty is much faster according to this: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2701#issuecomment...

    Also typometer based measurements also on Linux. Shrug.

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    SaaSHub logo
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Terminal related posts

Index

What are some of the best open-source Terminal projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 ohmyzsh 168,498
2 Windows Terminal 93,402
3 Tabby 55,104
4 alacritty 52,639
5 tldr 48,296
6 rich 46,981
7 bat 46,341
8 lazygit 45,325
9 hyperterm 42,633
10 cheat.sh 37,443
11 httpie 31,760
12 fd 31,495
13 termux-app 30,652
14 modern-unix 29,689
15 tqdm 27,405
16 glances 24,869
17 fish-shell 24,502
18 autocomplete 24,255
19 iTerm2-Color-Schemes 24,161
20 micro-editor 23,872
21 wttr.in 23,598
22 textual 23,447
23 kitty 21,883

Sponsored
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com