BOboilerupnc·Nov 17, 2020
I’d recommend checking out the Kui Framework [0]. You can add a kubectl plug-in and get a pretty sweet CLI+UI hybrid experience.
[0] https://github.com/IBM/kui
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A hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
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4 sourcesIn some ways CLIs are great for discoverability, because they force everything into the familiar "list of commands" paradigm. GUIs can be either much better or much worse for discoverability, because the layout techniques that let GUIs surface important or contextually relevant functions are the same techniques that let GUIs hide the function you need behind six layers of B.S.
See this article (full disclosure: written by me) that talks a bit more about some of the tradeoffs between CLIs and GUIs from a UX perspective: https://medium.com/design-ibm/real-developers-dont-use-uis-d...
There's also this interesting project that attempts to bring some of the discoverability and other benefits of graphical UIs to CLIs: https://github.com/IBM/kui . Would love to see more work in this area.
In CLIs are reified UIs (2017)KUI - hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development
65 points · Open discussionAnother great project in this space is Kui[1] - a framework for graphical terminals. It gives a hybrid command-line/UI development experience for cloud-native development.
[1] https://github.com/IBM/kui
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