iocraft is a library for crafting beautiful text output and interfaces for the terminal or logs. It allows you to easily build complex layouts and interactive elements using a declarative API.
iocraft was inspired by Dioxus and Ink.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Define your UI using a clean, highly readable syntax.
- Organize your UI using flexbox layouts powered by taffy.
- Output colored and styled UIs to the terminal or ASCII output anywhere else.
- Create animated or interactive elements with event handling and hooks.
- Build fullscreen terminal applications with ease.
- Pass props and context by reference to avoid unnecessary cloning.
- Broad support for both Unix and Windows terminals so your UIs look great everywhere.
Website: github.com/ccbrown/iocraft
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Developer: Chris
License: MIT License or Apache License 2.0
iocraft is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Rust TUI Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Ratatui | Simple and flexible way to create text-based user interfaces in the terminal |
| Crossterm | Terminal manipulation library |
| iocraft | Craft CLIs, TUIs, and text-based IO |
| tui-realm | Component-driven Rust toolkit built around an Elm-style architecture |
| Zaz | Terminal manipulation library |
| tui-input | Library supporting multiple backends |
| AppCUI-rs | Fast cross-platform Rust library for rich terminal applications |
| R3BL TUI | Async Rust workspace for responsive, interactive terminal applications |
| Revue | Vue-inspired toolkit for building reactive terminal interfaces |
| Tears | Declarative Rust library for composing polished terminal interfaces |
| Reratui | Modern reactive Rust library for dynamic terminal applications |
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