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Termui – Go terminal dashboard

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The author likes terminals a lot: http://gizak.github.io/

Projects like this make me want to have an excuse to use them.

This project makes me want to have an excuse to learn go!

Let me also plug this great little building block that this library is using: http://github.com/nsf/termbox-go

Turns out I recently wrote a dashboard client (quick hack in Ruby, soon converted to Go) for our status monitor app server (in Go, exposes only an API to get the results). The monitor is on Digital Ocean and the dashboard is on premises and runs on ArchLinux (on an old spare machine, soon a RPi because noise and thermal exhaust, and why wwe'll convert the client to Go, to lower overhead as much as possible), switches to vt8 on boot and does its thing straight into tty8. It can also be run locally, is responsive to resize, and triggers notifications via the bell (pcspkr on the dashboard machine, terminal bounce+tab icon on OS X Terminal.app) when something bad happens.

Learning about terminal escape sequences and capabilities (SIGWINCH, alternate screen, doing coloring non naively, clear part/all of line/screen) was quite fun and not that hard.

Going terminal/VT is incredibly interesting for us when building such tools because the setup is extremely simple, robust, secure, and portable.

This package will certainly allow us to go to the next level much more easily.

Using this together with cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) produces quite awesome results: http://imgur.com/gallery/i1LtkK7/

Are there other in-terminal applications that have browser-like presentation options like this? Specifically with padding/margin and a "responsive" view?

In short, very, very cool.

There's a node.js implementation of something very similar at https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib

as the second line of the readme said

"Go terminal dashboard. Inspired by [blessed-contrib], but purely in Go."

HN discussion about the Node.JS implementation (blessed-contrib) a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888089

If we want to trace back the lineage completely, here's the discussion on blessed (https://github.com/chjj/blessed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058639

I guess it wasn't very popular in spite of the projects it influenced. :)

Although, blessed-contrib does add some pretty cool widgets.

blessed is an amazing engineering work! I hoped the name blessed-contrib to show the project roots.

termui is built upon termbox-go in a similar way that blessed-contrib builds on blessed, which is why I found them similar.

yaronn, I totally appreciate that. I like seeing projects based on blessed, and yours might be the first major library to do that. The drawille ascii art in blessed-contrib is awesome, and it's good because I think it belongs in a separate library. It might be too specific for blessed core. That being said, I definitely want to add a table widget to blessed eventually. It should be in there.

Awesome, those kind of terminal interface look like what the future would have been according to the scifi movies I watched when I was a kid!

This is pretty cool! Do you guys know if there is a web app that lets you create dashboards like this one?

Not sure about web apps, but Status Board (http://panic.com/statusboard/) is an iPad app that lets you create dashboards.

Well, a popular one is Dashing by Shopify - https://github.com/shopify/dashing

I'm not sure this is what you mean but, running the charts in a browser won't give you as much uptime as a terminal even if the charts look better.

http://event-fabric.com/ (I'm the Co-Founder)

here's an overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyeqgrykNkI

Well, you could go all out, grab https://github.com/chjj/term.js, plug that into termui using WebSockets or something, and it would most likely work:

On the other hand, you can easily code your own without too much hassle. https://github.com/rcarmo/raspi-cluster includes a minimalist Dashing clone with a Go backend and real-time updates.

Delightful! So much information density in so few bytes ..

Why is there text written over other text in the screenshots? It makes everything look broken, cluttered, distracting and difficult to read.

Nice to see this project is progressing since it was last posted. I personally have a similar thing hacked together for some specific server monitoring stuff, would love to someday port all our analytics over to something like this.

Looks familiar: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib

It says so in the README.md

> Go terminal dashboard. Inspired by blessed-contrib, but purely in Go.

He calls this out in the repo description.

Any other framework like this in Python or C++?

Python has urwid.

sweet!!

I'd love that htop work with this

ref: http://man.cx/htop

Does the software name come from "tesuji" by any chance? Because that would be very clever :)

I like the visuals and I'm also happy to see a Go project with easy to read real world demo codes.

When I try to run any examples, it just exits with no error.

Very nice. It makes me want to switch to vim as well.

I have images of tty-DOM, is it bad ?

Which terminal emulation do you support?

(1)None (2)Ansi (3)Avatar (4)VT-100 (5)Rip Graphics

I remember those days fondly.. my BBS was still running in 2012 (via telnet), been wanting to find time to get it back online again. Though, RIPScript is kind of a waste artifact at this point, text-mode art is still pretty cool, and seeing a bit of activity.

CSS does specify a tty media type. I've never been able to find an implementation for an actual tty though.

This looks pretty awesome.

That looks amazing.

Oh wow yes please.

Github is going down. I can't access now.

wow looks sweet. will this run inside a tmux session?

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