I have used React/Preact/React Native/Flutter to build complex UIs. I thought it would be great to use something like this to render TUI and get rid of some of

I have used React/Preact/React Native/Flutter to build complex UIs. I thought it would be great to use something like this to render TUI and get rid of some of the app complexity for “simpler” one-user apps. I have used it and it is a nightmare when your app gets just slightly complex. Instead of making simple components I ended up traversing the internals of the library. Impressed by some people getting things done with it though. - CSS, why?! It does not really work like CSS when it comes to positioning things, overlapping and so on. Compared to previous versions where these properties were in a dict or sent in to the component, they are now in either big string blocks or in separate files, removing syntax highlighting and/or locality. - Cannot easily use debugging such as PDB because it hijacks Traceback and uses async. Maybe fine if you rely on other debugging tools. - It lacks simple off-the-shelf components such as menu bars, so I built my own, but run into annoying artifacts as mentioned before. Rich, the underlying rendering library is good, and simple enough. I ditched Textual for prompt_toolkit, and can still use Rich to render things in pt.