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A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

30 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 8 stories, 22 comments · first 2013-07-17 · latest 2026-03-27

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    Blessed: A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js
    story by lawrenceyan · 2026-03-27 · 0 comments
  2. Alas https://github.com/chjj/blessed/issues/418#issuecomment-1533... I considered blessed for a recent project, but ended up just simplifying the approach & making do with Inquirer + Meow instead due to the maintenance status. Haven't…
    comment by lucideer · 2023-05-08 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
  3. …react for various reasons. I would use this if I needed to write a command line app with nodejs: https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by xrd · 2023-05-08 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
  4. …since 2016 [1]. Are there any TS based TUI libraries that are mature and actively developed? [1] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by deanc · 2022-10-23 · in Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer
  5. …pairing it to a terminal emulator and writing a blessed-like[1] using Clojure though. [1] blessed - https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by kelseyfrog · 2021-11-01 · in Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
  6. …He’s definitely a super programmer. Thank you for all your contributions to this world @chjj! [1] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by rasengan · 2021-10-08 · in Xterm.js
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    Blessed: Curses-like library with high level terminal interface API for Node.js
    story by bryanrasmussen · 2021-03-31 · 14 comments
  8. …might give a shot at contacting them again). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405186 [2] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20091011010412/http://www.vtsoft.... [4]…
    comment by yourapostasy · 2021-02-16 · in Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
  9. …and `ink` [2], which is also a text-based React renderer but using its own display layer. [0] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [1] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [2] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
    comment by acemarke · 2021-02-16 · in Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
  10. …tps://github.com/batuhandirek/battleship-rocks-client 0: Only client code is public for the moment 1: https://github.com/chjj/blessed Edit: Added repo link and description
    comment by batuhandirek · 2021-01-25 · in Show HN: Battleship.rocks – Multiplayer Battleship Game in CLI
  11. https://github.com/chjj/blessed is a curses-like library with a high level terminal interface API for node.js. It also has impressive demos.
    comment by aaron-santos · 2020-09-08 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?
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    Ask HN: Is it possible to get Blessed to render to the DOM?
    story by elliotbnvl · 2020-02-05 · 1 comment
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    Blessed: A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js
    story by pcr910303 · 2019-11-26 · 0 comments
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    Blessed (A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js)
    story by tosh · 2018-12-30 · 0 comments
  15. …windowing system, if tmux/similar don't quite do what you are looking for. For example https://github.com/chjj/blessed if node.js is your bag. Similar libraries exist for other languages too (go, .net, ...) - search for "Terminal UI…
    comment by dspillett · 2018-05-31 · in WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
  16. …a single binary. That lets you avoid having to install node or any supporting libraries. [0] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [1] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [2] https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib [3]…
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2018-02-01 · in GRV – Git Repository Viewer
  17. …out the Blessed terminal rendering lib and its ecosystem (which even includes a React bridge!): - https://github.com/chjj/blessed - https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib - https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed (edited for…
    comment by mmatants · 2017-11-01 · in Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters
  18. …[6] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html [7] https://github.com/chjj/blessed [8] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed [9] https://github.com/zeit/pkg
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience?
  19. if you look at blessed for example https://github.com/chjj/blessed you'll see that the widgets fit every use case you would need for a webapp, but just need to write a wrapper for web rather than ncurses if that makes sense.
    comment by jlebrech · 2017-04-04 · in Show HN: A ncurses CRM system (and accounting)
  20. There is already an ncurses library for JavaScript [1] so one for WebKit shouldn't be far off ;) [1] https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by sah2ed · 2017-03-24 · in VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
  21. …bother me one bit. However, the "blessed" library that Webpack Dashboard uses _is_ impressive: https://github.com/chjj/blessed That's an ncurses-like library with some really nice features. I will be using it.
    comment by dotancohen · 2016-08-15 · in Introducing Webpack Dashboard
  22. …- it's a library called blessed, by Christopher Jeffrey, who's pretty boss at CLI apps: https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by dc2 · 2015-10-10 · in Vorpal: a framework for interactive CLIs in Node.js
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    Blessed – A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js
    story by tilt · 2015-07-15 · 7 comments
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    Blessed – A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js
    story by sanjeetsuhag · 2015-06-30 · 0 comments
  25. This is gold to my inner terminal nerd. I made a simple terminal ANSI art viewer just for this: https://github.com/chjj/blessed/tree/master/example/ansi-vie...
    comment by chjj · 2015-04-19 · in ANSI Art Collection from Old BBSs
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    Blessed v0.1.0 – new terminal goodies for Node.js
    story by chjj · 2015-04-10 · 0 comments
  27. 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. :)…
    comment by chjj · 2015-03-27 · in Termui – Go terminal dashboard
  28. The underlying terminal parser is friggin' hawt: https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by indexzero · 2014-01-18 · in Termcoin – A Bitcoin wallet for your terminal
  29. This was also recently released. https://github.com/chjj/blessed
    comment by meandave · 2013-08-09 · in How to write a command line application in Node.js
  30. Github: https://github.com/chjj/blessed and https://github.com/chjj/jitsu-ui
    comment by chjj · 2013-07-17 · in Blessed - a curses-like widget library for node.js