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Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

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.

The Readme for a UI library benefits enormously from screenshots, even terminal based UIs.

3 days agoby biomcgary

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

3 days agoby unsnap_biceps

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.

2 days agoby smaughk

Think tabs widget would look better if it was more like a text area in appearance. Tab title should be connected to its content.

3 days agoby Evidlo

It is interesting that suddenly the Terminal UI became popular. I am super happy to see this kind of thing pop up.

3 days agoby tigranbs