Console

Top 23 Console Open-Source Projects

  • 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.

  • tldr

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

    Project mention: Try / Ripgrep in Y Minutes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-19

    A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool!

    A similar spirit to projects like https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/ , but this has a lot more useful detail.

    The ripgrep author has a blog post on performance and benchmarking that is an interesting read in itself: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • chalk

    🖍 Terminal string styling done right

    Project mention: JavaScript Libraries That You Should Know | dev.to | 2024-03-19

    4. Chalk

  • .tmux

    🇫🇷 Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with ❤️

  • WindTerm

    A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.

    Project mention: WindTerm SSH Client has Ransomware? | /r/PowerShell | 2023-09-13
  • eruda

    Console for mobile browsers

    Project mention: A table that looks good on mobile and desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-05

    Could you inject it as a bookmarklet?

    If not, you could probably just paste it into Eruda (https://eruda.liriliri.io/)

  • 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.

  • xterm.js

    A terminal for the web

    Project mention: Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-22

    Here is a screenshot: https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/pull/4519#issue-17129655...

  • ranger

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

    Project mention: Z – Jump Around | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-15

    Came to post zoxide. Also if you use `ranger`[1] (vim inspired file manager) then you might like to add the `ranger-zoxide` plugin[2].

    1. https://github.com/ranger/ranger

    2. https://github.com/jchook/ranger-zoxide

  • gdb-dashboard

    Modular visual interface for GDB in Python

    Project mention: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake (Redux) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-25

    Disclaimer: I'm making a competing build system.

    I won't tell you specific build systems, but I will tell you what to look for.

    Look for power. Unlimited power. [1]

    Usually, this means a few things:

    1. The build system uses a general-purpose language, even if the language needs features to be added.

    2. The build system does not reduce the power of the general-purpose language. For example, say it starts with Python but prohibits recursion. In that case, you know it is not unlimited power. Looking at you, Starlark.

    3. The build can be dynamically changed, i.e., the build is not statically determined before it even begins.

    4. Each task has unlimited power. This means that the task can use a general-purpose language, not just run external processes.

    5. And there has to be some thought put it in user experience.

    Why are these important? Well, let's look at why with CMake, which fails all of them.

    For #1, CMake's language started as a limited language for enumerating lists. (Hence, CMakeLists.txt is the file name.) And yet, it's grown to be as general-purpose as possible. Why? Because when you need an if statement, nothing else will do, and when you need a loop, nothing else will do.

    And that brings us to #2: if CMake's language started limited, are there still places where it's limited? I argue yes, and I point to the article where it says that your couldn't dynamically call functions until recently. There are probably other places.

    For #3, CMake's whole model precludes it. CMake generates the build upfront then expects another build system to actually execute it. There is no changing the build without regenerating it. (And even then, CMake did a poor job until the addition of `--fresh`.) A fully dynamic build should be able to add targets and make others targets depend on those new targets dynamically, among other things.

    For #4, obviously CMake limits what tasks can do because Ninja and Make limit tasks to running commands.

    As another example, to implement a LaTeX target, you technically need a while loop to iterate until a fixed point. To do that with Make and Ninja, you have to jump through hoops or use an external script that may not work on all platforms.

    CMake obviously fails #5, and to see how much other build systems fail it, just look for comments pouring hate on those build systems. CMake fails the most, but I haven't seen one that passes yet.

    As an example, CMake barely got a debugger. Wow! Cool! It's been 20 years! My build system will have a debugger in public release #2 (one after the MVP) that will be capable of outputting to multiple TTY's like gdb-dashboard. [2] They should have had this years ago!

    Should other comments suggest specific build systems, like the one that suggested Bazel, judge them by this list. Some will be better than others. None will pass everything, IMO, which is why I'm making my own.

    [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sg14jNbBb-8

    [2]: https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard

  • console

    Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces

  • signale

    Highly configurable logging utility

  • spectre.console

    A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.

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

    I like this one for .NET https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console which I found in this list https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks.

  • ConEmu

    Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

    Project mention: Any user with Win 7 user + Vim at terminal+airline_with_Powerline_symbols? | /r/vim | 2023-07-10

    On Windows 7 your best bet is to install a modern terminal emulator like ConEmu: https://conemu.github.io/

  • xonsh

    :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

    Project mention: This Week In Python | dev.to | 2024-03-09

    xonsh – Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

  • enquirer

    Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

  • mapscii

    🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows

  • Pry

    A runtime developer console and IRB alternative with powerful introspection capabilities.

    Project mention: Ruby 3.3 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-24

    that's surprising considering `pry`[1] is such an amazing debugger IMO.

    [1] https://github.com/pry/pry

  • buku

    :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

    Project mention: Buku: Personal Mini-Web in Text | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-29
  • htop

    htop - an interactive process viewer

    Project mention: Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers | dev.to | 2023-12-25

    Probably everyone knows about the "top" command. Htop is similar, but gives us a more user-friendly output. It shows processes using the most resources, how much available resources you have and who runs those processes. For more information, visit https://htop.dev/

  • sysbench

    Scriptable database and system performance benchmark

    Project mention: RDS MySQL Load Testing with Sysbench | dev.to | 2023-04-09

    Sometimes you need to do a load test on MySQL Database to test Auto-Scaling for example. I found a very useful tool called Sysbench that I will present in this article.

  • consola

    🐨 Elegant Console Logger for Node.js and Browser

    Project mention: Elegant Console Logs With Consola | dev.to | 2023-11-16

    Console logs are not always well structured and eye-pleasing. Unpleasant and messy console takes away from the bliss of a developer. I recently came across a package named consola which does exactly this — making consoles meaningful and elegant.

  • phpinsights

    🔰 Instant PHP quality checks from your console

    Project mention: Laravel code-quality tools | dev.to | 2024-02-08

    PHP Insights is a code quality analysis tool that checks for code quality, coding style, complexity, and architecture. Just like Pint, it's also opinionated, so you'll have to customize it to fit your needs.

  • SaaSHub

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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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-19.

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Index

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

Project Stars
1 Windows Terminal 93,149
2 tldr 48,019
3 tqdm 27,211
4 chalk 21,335
5 .tmux 20,964
6 WindTerm 19,998
7 eruda 17,140
8 xterm.js 16,502
9 ranger 14,760
10 gdb-dashboard 10,284
11 console 9,631
12 signale 8,854
13 spectre.console 8,443
14 ConEmu 8,391
15 xonsh 7,899
16 enquirer 7,468
17 mapscii 6,867
18 Pry 6,705
19 buku 6,085
20 htop 5,834
21 sysbench 5,743
22 consola 5,491
23 phpinsights 5,179
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