Posts tagged: textual

m9a devlog 1

2025-05-11T09:33:44Z

It’s sad to see textualize.io close the doors, but textual is still alive and maintained as a n open source project. I tried to use it very early, and struggled, this was before docs and tutorials really existed, before a lot of the widgets and components existed. Then as we all do I got busy and moved on to other things in life and did not have the capacity to build TUIs.

I like tuis #

I like tuis, I like staying in the terminal. I use lf daily to move files around when I want something more than mv and cp. I use k9s hourly to monitor and manage my kubernetes cluster.

Are they worth the effort?? #

As awesome as tui’s are, they are more effort to build, and less automatable. I feel like the first stage into automation of a project really needs to be a good cli, and this is often good enough for the project and I move on.

m9a (em - nine - ah) #

inspired by k9s

Like I said I really like k9s and use it all the time, It really makes running kubectl commands a breeze and much less verbose. I don’t know how useful this will be, but as a learning exercise I am working on a k9s experience for my blog generator markata.

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Learning #

So far this is just for learning and not quite the most useful thing, I am not sure if there is a way to do it, but I am interested in the idea of some sort of framework (maybe just widgets) that can more easily turn pydantic objects into this kind of tui. I don’t quite know how it would work, or if it could work, for now just exploring the idea, and I think I hit a fairly crude clone of k9s so far.

💭 Will McGugan on X: "New Version of #Textual released! 😎🤓🦾 The ...

2024-10-27T02:51:07Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

This new demo of textual is wildly awesome, so many widgets and features being added into the main library. The themes and animations are on point and far surpass my expectations of a tui.

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💭 Will McGugan on X: "Just a wee thing that came up today. I thi...

2023-11-27T16:31:33Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com

Textual is so sick, Will just made a live markdown editor in the terminal!

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💭 Center things - Textual

2023-07-30T16:31:55Z

Textual - Center things

Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

Textual Documentation · textual.textualize.io

How to center things in textual. Textual has a very unique way of styling text user interfaces for the terminal using css. If you know css it feels natural.

@willmcgugan, has put together a great article on how to center things in textual

here the final result

from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual.widgets import Static

QUOTE = "Could not find you in Seattle and no terminal is in operation at your classified address."


class CenterApp(App):
    """How to center things."""

    CSS = """
    Screen {
        align: center middle;
    }

    #hello {
        background: blue 50%;
        border: wide white;
        width: 40;
        height: 9;
        text-align: center;
        content-align: center middle;
    }
    """

    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
        yield Static(QUOTE, id="hello")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = CenterApp()
    app.run()

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💭 1j01/textual-paint: :art: MS Paint... in your terminal.

2023-07-28T14:59:37Z

GitHub - 1j01/textual-paint: :art: MS Paint in your terminal.

:art: MS Paint in your terminal. Contribute to 1j01/textual-paint development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub · github.com

1j01 created a complete working clone of ms paint in the terminal using the textual framework. It’s incredible.

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💭 Harlequin SQL IDE - DuckDB

2023-07-28T14:59:37Z

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duckdb.org

Harlequin is a pretty sweet example of what textual can be used to create. Its a terminal based sql ide for DuckDB.

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💭 doyensec/wsrepl: WebSocket REPL for pentesters

2023-07-28T14:59:37Z

GitHub - doyensec/wsrepl: WebSocket REPL for pentesters

WebSocket REPL for pentesters. Contribute to doyensec/wsrepl development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub · github.com

Very inspiring textual project to check out how they set up the ui. Their intro video has a pretty epic dev experience.

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💭 Doyensec on Twitter: "Announcing wsrepl, the WebSocket testing...

2023-07-28T14:59:37Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com

wsrepl is an epic websocket repl built in python on the textual framework.

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