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The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

43 mentions on Hacker News by 38 people: 11 stories, 32 comments · first 2021-06-16 · latest 2026-05-14

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  1. …issues had I gotten past the login step. [0]: https://x.com/skcd42/status/2054993372662915183 [1]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual [2]: https://storage.googleapis.com/grok-build-public-artifacts/c... [3]: https://x.ai/cli/install.sh
    comment by ofek · 2026-05-14 · in Grok Build
  2. …[1][2]) exist to make a modern-looking UX. [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by thomascountz · 2025-12-30 · in The Signature Flicker
  3. I'm glad it's not another LLM CLI that uses React. Vibe-cli seems to be built with https://github.com/textualize/textual/
    comment by eavan0 · 2025-12-09 · in Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
  4. Looks like Textual[1] -- the buttons are always a giveaway [1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by ceuk · 2025-09-10 · in Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell
  5. …https://github.com/gizak/termui/ https://github.com/rivo/tview https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by fcpguru · 2025-08-23 · in Ask HN: Stack for beautiful CLI tools like Claude code
  6. …like this has the grace to fall back to https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog for non-GUI users. Or https://github.com/Textualize/textual if they want to be faaaaancy.
    comment by dmd · 2025-05-28 · in YAD: display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line
  7. …without having to install them with uvx, i.e.: uvx --python 3.12 textual-demo uvx usolitaire [0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual [1] https://github.com/oleksis/awesome-textualize-projects
    comment by sorenjan · 2025-05-09 · in Show HN: BlenderQ – A TUI for managing multiple Blender renders
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    Textual 1.0
    story by willm · 2024-12-20 · 0 comments
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    Textual 1.0 Release
    story by m3at · 2024-12-13 · 4 comments
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    Show HN: Termichess – Play chess in your terminal
    story by krishnasangeeth · 2024-10-07 · 28 comments
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    Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminal
    story by nsdarren · 2024-07-10 · 51 comments
  12. …at a very high level - even has CSS. Rich's sibling, Textual[1] is designed for building TUIs. [1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by jhayward · 2024-05-10 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  13. …interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser." [1] [1]: https://github.com/textualize/textual/
    comment by blamazon · 2023-12-09 · in Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
  14. …but it’s very DOM-like, uses CSS selectors, etc. and a cool option when it meets your needs. [0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by halfcat · 2023-12-09 · in PysimpleGUI
  15. …`less -R` is not the default. FWIW, textual (and urwid) does ANSII escape codes well: https://github.com/Textualize/textual touch file$'\n'name find . -print0 | xargs -0
    comment by westurner · 2023-10-20 · in "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs
  16. Did a cursory dive through, check: https://textual.textualize.io/tutorial/ and https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/docs/example... ...what have people had success with in golang-world? Anything reasonably equivalent someone…
    comment by ramses0 · 2023-08-18 · in Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python
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    Textual: Rapid Application Development framework for Python
    story by generichuman · 2023-08-18 · 99 comments
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    How to fix TUI rendering in the macOS terminal.app
    story by willm · 2023-06-19 · 0 comments
  19. I would also[0] be interested in an argparse equivalent of this for my tool Library[1] [0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/discussions/228 [1] https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library
    comment by xk3 · 2023-05-23 · in Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps
  20. …Textual [2] for Python and tui-rs for Rust [3]. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual [3] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
    comment by toppy · 2023-05-08 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
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    Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots
    story by jlowin · 2023-04-08 · 51 comments
  22. It would be fun to build a TUI Fediverse app using Textual[0] or something [0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by uneekname · 2023-02-15 · in We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
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    Matrix Rain, Screen Transitions and Palette Explorations
    story by willm · 2023-01-14 · 0 comments
  24. Learn more about Textual ( https://github.com/textualize/textual ) so that I can implement interactive exercises for my ebooks. I'll have to up my Python game as well (OOP, async, typing, etc).
    comment by asicsp · 2023-01-09 · in What are you planning to learn in 2023?
  25. …has documentation. Which you can find here: https://textual.textualize.io/ Github repository: https://github.com/Textualize/textual Textual is still very much a work in progress, but it is way more stable now. Textualize (the company) is…
    comment by willm · 2022-10-23 · in Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer
  26. …for this instance are purged. I think there is a similar problem in the source code as well, e.g. https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/4d94df81e44b27fff... - a DirectoryTree instance won't be deallocated if its render_tree_label…
    comment by kmike84 · 2022-08-03 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
  27. I feel like this should have a UI written with Textual: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by samwillis · 2022-06-02 · in Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64 (2020)
  28. …https://docs.poshtools.com/powershell-pro-tools-documentatio... https://github.com/bczsalba/pytermgui https://github.com/Textualize/textual - discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143327 Auto-generation of UI was an area…
    comment by WalterGR · 2022-06-02 · in Ask HN: Are there any high-level TUI tools?
  29. …and forth between the terminal and a browser. [0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [1]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by nvrspyx · 2022-06-01 · in Ffmpeg Buddy
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    Textual – A TUI framework for Python inspired by modern web development
    story by hprotagonist · 2022-05-18 · 6 comments
  31. …from rich and the test coverage on that is 99% [3]. [1]: https://xtermjs.org/#real-world-uses [2]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual#textual:~:text=Current... . [3]: https://app.codecov.io/gh/Textualize/rich
    comment by wasi_master · 2022-04-25 · in Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
  32. …10? Quite interest in the jupyter. Or similar tool available for lisp. Seems basically python https://github.com/Textualize/textual .
    comment by ngcc_hk · 2022-04-25 · in Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
  33. …hesitant about that personally, but then again it's not my company, my product, or my project. [1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/tree/main/tests
    comment by throwanem · 2022-04-24 · in Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
  34. In Python-land, Rich and Textual are the way to go. However, its not low/no-code. https://github.com/Textualize/textual https://github.com/Textualize/rich
    comment by aitoehigie · 2022-03-27 · in Ask HN: Simple framework/way to create command-line apps?
  35. …part, for list select or viewports, you need the high level lib from the same author: textual ( https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual ).
    comment by BiteCode_dev · 2022-01-24 · in Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous
  36. …is fantastic for TUI apps. [0] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/336/terminal-magic-with-... [1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by windexh8er · 2022-01-21 · in Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich
  37. See also Textual by the same developer. Really impressive work. https://github.com/Textualize/textual
    comment by samwillis · 2022-01-15 · in Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal
  38. …) - rich: text formatting ( https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich ) - textual: TUI, using rich ( https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual ) - fastpi: Rest APIs ( https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ ) - typer: CLI Library, uses Click (…
    comment by dogline · 2021-12-16 · in Tqdm (Python)
  39. …and textual (for TUI) from Will McGugan are great libraries: https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual
    comment by abdusco · 2021-10-13 · in How does apt render its fancy progress bar?
  40. …web The latest talk python to me podcast has an episode on Textual and Rich that looks interesting. https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual
    comment by baseh · 2021-10-09 · in Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
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    Show HN: Textual – An async-powered terminal application framework for Python
    story by willm · 2021-08-08 · 13 comments
  42. I fixed a spelling mistake: https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual/pull/8
    comment by edward · 2021-06-17 · in Textual: a Python text user interface with Rich as the renderer
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    Textual: a Python text user interface with Rich as the renderer
    story by trueduke · 2021-06-16 · 21 comments