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Serverless (https://serverless.com https://serverless.com) has a nice experience. I believe it is built using inquirer.js (https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer

Serverless (https://serverless.com https://serverless.com) has a nice experience. I believe it is built using inquirer.js (https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js) I've recently built an internal tool with inquirer and it was a really nice development and user experience. I haven't figured out the best way to test the interactions though. termUI in go is also nice if you need graphing and viz for a dashboard like command line.

shoshin23 9y ago
I can second Serverless. Apart from being quite a powerful tool, it also has a nice experience overall.
noshbrinken 9y ago
I think many/most Node TUI's use Inquirer. I have mixed feelings about it. Python has several library's that provide lower-level constructs for building CLI and TUI's. Then they provide examples for using the library to implement a common pattern or prompt. Inquirer gives you some ready-made prompts but doesn't provide any help/convenience for creating your own prompt. It seems like the wrong level of abstraction.
- odammit 9y ago
  Which python libraries do you prefer? Inquirer is def the HTML inputs of the terminal but I got pretty far with it. My use case was Fairly Simple™ though. What other UI components do you think it's lacking?
  - noshbrinken 9y ago
    I like python_prompt_toolkit, though I think the learning curve can be a bit steep. It gives you a ton of flexibility, which I really appreciate, but I have a hard time remembering how all the pieces interact. I hope I don't sound overly critical of people's open source work, because I've used and really appreciate both Inquirer and PPT. Just seems like there's yet to be a canonical library for this problem set.
    - odammit 9y ago
      It'd be really nice to see one in go or something else I could ship around easily w/o needing NPM and node, etc. I'll give PPT a swing. I haven't used it before. Thanks!

shoshin23 9y ago

I can second Serverless. Apart from being quite a powerful tool, it also has a nice experience overall.

noshbrinken 9y ago

I think many/most Node TUI's use Inquirer. I have mixed feelings about it. Python has several library's that provide lower-level constructs for building CLI and TUI's. Then they provide examples for using the library to implement a common pattern or prompt. Inquirer gives you some ready-made prompts but doesn't provide any help/convenience for creating your own prompt. It seems like the wrong level of abstraction.

odammit 9y ago
Which python libraries do you prefer? Inquirer is def the HTML inputs of the terminal but I got pretty far with it. My use case was Fairly Simple™ though. What other UI components do you think it's lacking?
- noshbrinken 9y ago
  I like python_prompt_toolkit, though I think the learning curve can be a bit steep. It gives you a ton of flexibility, which I really appreciate, but I have a hard time remembering how all the pieces interact. I hope I don't sound overly critical of people's open source work, because I've used and really appreciate both Inquirer and PPT. Just seems like there's yet to be a canonical library for this problem set.
  - odammit 9y ago
    It'd be really nice to see one in go or something else I could ship around easily w/o needing NPM and node, etc. I'll give PPT a swing. I haven't used it before. Thanks!