<h1 id="clitui-apps">cli/tui apps<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#clitui-apps"></a></h1>
<ul>
<li>What are the functionalities a cli/tui app framework has to have to work well?
<ul>
<li>What is the base language? (python? rust? java?)</li>
<li>How to parse input (<a href="/notes/ur7kwe9hjmc642ktgcxpry0">string parsing</a>)</li>
<li>How to handle keyboard events</li>
<li>How to print to screen
<ul>
<li>How to style texts printed to screen
<ul>
<li>How is this type of styling different from web styling?</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Textualize/rich">Rich: A Python library for text formatting</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>What else?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.textualize.io/">Textual — the lean application framework</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/WLwVnYb5Adw">Getting Started</a> <sub><a href="/notes/keuy591joycjjpuaoopo1x3#^anchor-tech-get-started">on exposes</a></sub></li>
<li>Examples:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/charles-001/dolphie">Dolphie: An intuitive feature-rich terminal tool for monitoring MySQL in real-time</a></li>
<li>[Elia: A terminal ChatGPT client built with Textual]</li>
<li>[Harlequin.sh: The DuckDB IDE for your terminal]</li>
<li>Extra list: <a href="https://www.textualize.io/projects/">https://www.textualize.io/projects/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea">Bubble Tea: A TUI framework for Go</a></li>
<li>What are some popular standard terminal apps?
<ul>
<li>MongoDB, PostgreSql, Kafka, "code", "subl"??</li>
<li>or, are these the major proper terminal apps?: "ls", "tree", "cat", "nano", "git", "ffmpeg", "pip", "vercel",...</li>
<li>How is a terminal app different from software you download and run in the terminal?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/ezel9m0a8gfmk9lnmkjuiob">hacking how series</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/ur7kwe9hjmc642ktgcxpry0">string parsing</a></li>
</ul>

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