I’ve been working on gotui, a modern fork of the unmaintained termui, rebuilt on top of tcell for TrueColor, mouse support, and proper resize handling. It keeps the simple termui-style API, but adds a bunch of new widgets (charts, gauges, world map, etc.), nicer visuals (collapsed borders, rounded corners), and input components for building real dashboards and tools. Under the hood the renderer’s been reworked for much better performance, and I’d love feedback on what’s missing for you to use it in production.
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biomcgary•1mo ago
The Readme for a UI library benefits enormously from screenshots, even terminal based UIs.
keyle•1mo ago
I second that, even better would be if every type chart would be a folder, with a readme containing a screenshot and the code example. That would be top notch.
PS: looks great on the surface!
carsenk•1mo ago
Next updates will include better docs and many screenshots/examples, thanks!
I am not affiliated, I just think it’s a neat tool
carsenk•1mo ago
Screenshots added for all widgets :) Flex layouts were added too!
tigranbs•1mo ago
It is interesting that suddenly the Terminal UI became popular. I am super happy to see this kind of thing pop up.
unsnap_biceps•1mo ago
As a FYI, you removed the original author's name from your license information. Per the MIT license, you need to preserve their copyright in your fork
carsenk•1mo ago
Will fix, thanks
porridgeraisin•1mo ago
Genuinely curious. Do you actually open the license file on all repos posted to HN?
unsnap_biceps•1mo ago
Not every one, but if it looks like something I might use, I do take a quick look at it and any upstream it came from. It keeps me from using something when I shouldn't and have to rip it out later.
Evidlo•1mo ago
Think tabs widget would look better if it was more like a text area in appearance. Tab title should be connected to its content.
carsenk•1mo ago
Agreed, tabs widget needs work, I will try to get into the next release! Thanks!
smaughk•1mo ago
This project has made me think about more about the difference between TUI's and "command-line" (CLI) apps as categories. Traditionally CLIs were kind of run-and-exit tools, and "real" TUIs were long-running, stateful apps, but what we're creating seems to sit somewhere in between the to.
With richer terminals and libraries like this, the distinction feels more about interaction style than environment. Curious how others think about that boundary when designing tools that work in terminals.
hilti•1mo ago
I will definitely give it a try. Terminal UI‘s are super interesting in my opinion, because I feel like they can improve productivity. Hopefully this library can be compiled into a single binary that exposes an application icon. That’s one of the biggest hurdles I experienced with „GUI only“ users - they want something to double click on to start.
biomcgary•1mo ago
keyle•1mo ago
PS: looks great on the surface!
carsenk•1mo ago
ciarand•1mo ago
I am not affiliated, I just think it’s a neat tool
carsenk•1mo ago