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How difficult would it be to split the widgets off into their own independent/standalone terminal applications? I like the idea, but I'd rather lay things out myself with tmux (thus incorporating it into my existing workflow) rather than using the included layout system.

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question; I'm not particularly familiar with Node.js, let alone this particular codebase, so the answer isn't particularly obvious to me.

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It's easy to do. The grid layout is optional. You can give relative and absolute positions. The first code sample in the readme shows something like this (though position is implicit there). You can also read about blessed (=ncurses for node) which this project is implemented as an extention of.

As a side note, there is also OhUI (https://github.com/arcanis/ohui, i'm the author) which has the same goal than blessed, but a different api (dom-based) and codebase.

Blessed is great, but I had some performance issues with really fast updates, so I made OhUI, which tries to minimize as much as possible the repaint zones. I think it is pretty efficient at this regard.

This is a library, those are examples, not complete applications. You can make any application you want with any layout you want using these tools.

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