tui-rs

The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library. [0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui [1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

Rust has great libraries for TUIs. tui-rs (https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) has been used in numerous popular applications, but is unmaintained. ratatui (https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) is the maintained version, and is pretty new. Less widely known is cursive (https://github.com/gyscos/cursive), which I have yet to try. Aside from the libraries, I just wanted to start a project that would make be better at Rust. The easy distribution with cargo is a huge bonus though.

It has been forked and actively maintained on [1] ratatui crate. You can see this discussion post about it [2]. [1] https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui [2] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs/issues/654

For Golang there is Bubbletea [1], Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3]. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual [3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

tui-rs[0] is the closest equivalent. It's like the pre-css version of textual. [0] -- https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

I enjoyed using https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs on a few side projects.

There's similar libraries for python[1], golang[2], rust[3]. Drawing on the terminal isn't that resource intensive so I'd stay in whatever ecosystem I have a reason to be in. 1. https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich 2. https://github.com/gizak/termui 3. https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs Notably absent is the JVM. Another victim of startup time I imagine.

Rust has several interesting TUI libraries too. Check https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs for example.

Check out https://github.com/rivo/tview (golang), https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit (python) and https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs (rust). Personally I went with prompt toolkit for a work project I had to do in python and it is great!

https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs Liked using this. I wrote a TUI for my company's api with it. I dont use the website much any more.

Surprisingly easy! I was scared of building TUI like this because it seemed so complex, but it's actually not that hard. Or at least, with tui-rs[1], which is surprisingly easy to pick up. Once you read two or three examples, you'll gain pretty good overview of how to build applications with it. I can definitely recommend it, it does all the heavy lifting and leaves surprisingly little for you to care about. Just don't forget to unset terminal raw mode before your application exits, or else you'll start breaking people's terminals :-) [1]: https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs

I'll add technical section to readme, but for short. I've used tui-rs[1] with crossterm[2] backend (which handles the actual terminal interaction). The docs may seem intimidating, but it's surprisingly easy to use. I've considered using curses, but tui-rs seemed that it will be easier to handle. I can certainly recommend it for making tui applications. I didn't actually use any documentation at all, it wasn't in the man page and I didn't feel like hunting for it, as it was pretty easy to understand just by looking at the output. Sed debug works by running the code specified just as normal, but it annotates what it does to stdout. So it might look like this: https://gist.github.com/SoptikHa2/a50e90bd1b34c7238944c20d1a... Sed actually has pretty well-designed interface IMO, it's pretty minimal and has no nasty surprises. Edit: Here[3] is so