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# tui-rs
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[](https://travis-ci.org/fdehau/tui-rs)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/fdehau/tui-rs/branch/master)
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[](https://crates.io/crates/tui)
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[](https://docs.rs/crate/tui/)
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<img src="./assets/demo.gif" alt="Demo cast under Linux Termite with Inconsolata font 12pt">
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`tui-rs` is a [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) library to build rich terminal
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user interfaces and dashboards. It is heavily inspired by the `Javascript`
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library [blessed-contrib](https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib) and the
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`Go` library [termui](https://github.com/gizak/termui).
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The library itself supports three different backends to draw to the terminal. You
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can either choose from:
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- [termion](https://github.com/ticki/termion)
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- [rustbox](https://github.com/gchp/rustbox)
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- [crossterm](https://github.com/TimonPost/crossterm)
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However, some features may only be available in one of the three.
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The library is based on the principle of immediate rendering with intermediate
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buffers. This means that at each new frame you should build all widgets that are
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supposed to be part of the UI. While providing a great flexibility for rich and
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interactive UI, this may introduce overhead for highly dynamic content. So, the
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implementation try to minimize the number of ansi escapes sequences generated to
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draw the updated UI. In practice, given the speed of `Rust` the overhead rather
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comes from the terminal emulator than the library itself.
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Moreover, the library does not provide any input handling nor any event system and
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you may rely on the previously cited libraries to achieve such features.
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### [Documentation](https://docs.rs/tui)
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### Demo
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The [source code](examples/demo.rs) of the demo gif.
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### Widgets
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The library comes with the following list of widgets:
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* [Block](examples/block.rs)
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* [Gauge](examples/gauge.rs)
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* [Sparkline](examples/sparkline.rs)
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* [Chart](examples/chart.rs)
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* [BarChart](examples/bar_chart.rs)
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* [List](examples/list.rs)
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* [Table](examples/table.rs)
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* [Paragraph](examples/paragraph.rs)
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* [Canvas (with line, point cloud, map)](examples/canvas.rs)
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* [Tabs](examples/tabs.rs)
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Click on each item to see the source of the example. Run the examples with with
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cargo (e.g. to run the demo `cargo run --example demo`), and quit by pressing `q`.
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### Third-party widgets
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* [tui-logger](https://github.com/gin66/tui-logger)
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### Alternatives
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You might want to checkout [Cursive](https://github.com/gyscos/Cursive) for an
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alternative solution to build text user interfaces in Rust.
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## License
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[MIT](LICENSE)
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