brick is a Haskell terminal user interface (TUI) programming toolkit. To use it, you write a pure function that describes how your user interface should be drawn based on your current application state and you provide a state transformation function to handle events.
brick exposes a declarative API. Unlike most GUI toolkits which require you to write a long and tedious sequence of widget creations and layout setup, brick just requires you to describe your interface using a set of declarative layout combinators. Event-handling is done by pattern-matching on incoming events and updating your application state.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/jtdaugherty/brick
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Developer: Jonathan Daugherty
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
brick is written in Haskell. Learn Haskell with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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