membrane 2025-04-02

Are there any examples of pleasantly styled tui membrane apps? Similar to bubbletea or ratatui?

Not really. I haven't focused much on TUIs because I would usually prefer a user interface with 2d graphics.

Specifically for TUIs, there are some good JS libraries that can be used with node+clojurescript or nbb.

I'd like to bundle the tui app it in a single binary, although js i think is doable, jvm is preferred

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I'll check them out

Thanks

I'm curious about your use case. Is there a reason why a user interface with 2d graphics isn't preferred? Running clis over ssh is a common reason, but I 'm curious if there are others.

TBH i think it's easier to implement a simple app with a few prompt writes/reads, than a full blown GUI. Also looks cool and hacker-y

Historically, I think that's true. My goal is to bridge the gap. It's definitely easier for me to build a simple 2d interface, but I think the documentation and guides for membrane need to be improved before that's generally true.

But I'm still not 100% convinced that it's going to be tui

I initially wanted to use bblgum which is a jvm wrapper for gum, Since the tool i want to use is really really simple, but then thought people might not have gum in path so looking for alternatives