chjj/blessed
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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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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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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?) -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
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)? -
…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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…[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? -
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) -
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 -
…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 -
…- 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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