textual-web

For python there is also https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web, based on the rich/textual framework

Textual can run the tui apps as web apps. https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web

The worst part is there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone from making the same principles work in the browser. Zero. Nada. It's trivially proven by compiling apps to wasm and running in a terminal emulator but there's nothing stopping anyone from building react-terminal-like or whatever except that... I don't even know what since we've got https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web. People have thrown out decades of UX research and engineering out of the window because it isn't cool anymore. Makes me sick.

Textual can do that: https://github.com/textualize/textual-web

This is awesome work and textual being able to support terminal or web (https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web) also gives hope that this can be more than a terminal app. I'm hoping that in the future features like this can be standard in Linux's perf tool, for example, Firefox profiler support was recently added as a Google summer-of-code contribution: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tutorial#Firefox_Prof...

It appears that, by default, the textual-web command makes a WebSocket connection to textualize-dev.io and hosts through that. WebSocket is a session-based network protocol that allows for long connections with bidirectional traffic. In this case, the computer running textual-web initiates the connection, so there’s no need to listen for new incoming connections. But in all other respects, it’s acting like a server. The code is still running on your machine with all the permissions it had when you started it, so... be careful. Take a look at the repo, because the implementation’s fairly small and the README has more info: https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web

I think you are spot on classifying the project as “for people who want to write GUI”, based on the GitHub read me (which has screenshots) it does not appear to be a tui on the web at all https://github.com/Textualize/textual-web It looks like on the web it is rendering widgets that the library can also render via tui on the terminal. So it seems the title is quite misleading. The web based ones are not using font glyphs to build up a ui.

Hi HN, This project is designed to take a TUI built with Textual, and turn it in to a web application. It can also do something similar with your shell or other terminal app. You could serve "htop" for example. There are other projects which do something similar. Textual Web takes a different approach, in that it doesn't need to run as a server. It should work as long as you can make an outgoing tcp/ip connection. I plan to expose more of the web API to Textual apps. The goal is to have a system to quickly create and deploy UIs with Python. These aren't going to replace web applications any time soon, they are more for backends / dashboards / industrial use cases. Details on the repo. I'll be around to answer questions.