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perhaps they refer to Claude code being built on top of a React renderer for terminals, Ink https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink and is riddled with timeouts and intervals in useffects

comment by snqb · 2026-05-18 · in Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

There are terminal libraries that do this: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink Which is what Claude Code CLI uses (or was using?) and it caused many issues such as flickering, thrashing, and latency.

comment by EMM_386 · 2026-05-11 · in Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

…on top of each other with terminal codes. Ended up reading the Ink Terminal implementation of React https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink Fascinating how it ends up looking Wordperfect or Wordstar from the past instead of pixel based…

comment by gopalv · 2026-05-04 · in The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

…a different renderer for react, here is a tui renderer [1]. 0: https://www.vicinae.com/ 1: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by sureglymop · 2026-03-21 · in Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI

…some really interesting stuff in this space with their custom renderer. And then there's Ink ( https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink ) which is what Claude Code uses. I also built Ink Web ( https://github.com/cjroth/ink-web ) to make Ink…

comment by rothific · 2026-03-06 · in The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

…to a Terminal. (Seriously.) Who cares, and why? All of the major providers' CLI harnesses use Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by CamperBob2 · 2026-02-05 · in Claude Opus 4.6

…a built-in React feature. The idea been around for quite some time, I came across it initially with https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink back in 2022 sometime.

comment by embedding-shape · 2026-02-05 · in Claude Opus 4.6

They used Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink I've used it myself. It has some rough edges in terms of rendering performance but it's nice overall.

comment by pkkim · 2026-02-05 · in Claude Opus 4.6

…funny. Perhaps they'll figure it out when this comment makes it into Claude's training data. [1] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/blob/e8b08e75cf272761d63... [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ansi-escapes [3]…

comment by omnicognate · 2026-02-02 · in What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

…that manage to update without flickering. [1] https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/15505 [2] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/issues/359

comment by omnicognate · 2026-02-01 · in What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

…in the browser, but for command-line apps. It uses Yoga to build Flexbox layouts in the terminal," https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by mylifeandtimes · 2026-02-01 · in What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

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story by pzullo · 2025-07-01 · 2 comments

…Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, this one is also built with Ink, React for the terminal. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by mofle · 2025-06-25 · in Gemini CLI

React is used to render the CLI through ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by Hansenq · 2025-04-17 · in OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

…but I believe it is no longer one of the supported renderers). In JS there is Ink ( https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink ).

comment by marcyb5st · 2025-01-27 · in Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker

…Textual is such a chore to write and docs are crap. Is there HTML based TUI toolkit? I know there’s https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink , anything else besides it?

comment by wiseowise · 2025-01-27 · in Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker

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story by brianzelip · 2024-11-01 · 106 comments

I have used this https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/ for TUI design, it's "React" for TUI. It's pretty good but I had to add a bit of sub-process parallelization since I have a long running process in the background.

comment by shihanwan1 · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

…you could write fancy CLI outputs in bash, but ink takes the pain out of it and makes it easy. [0] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by addandsubtract · 2023-06-13 · in Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React

…[1], but is something to be mindful of, especially if your users may be using slow machines. [1] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/issues/21

comment by koito17 · 2023-05-09 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

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story by thunderbong · 2023-05-08 · 178 comments

You’re probably referring to https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by HeavyFeather · 2023-03-08 · in React is holding me hostage

Some projects from Ukrainian maintainers come to mind: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/ https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink by @vadimdemedes (React renderer for CLI) https://github.com/platformio by @ivankravets (embedded development platform)

comment by franky47 · 2023-03-01 · in Ask HN: Who's an open source maintainer/project that needs sponsorship or help?

You may want to try Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by sanxiyn · 2022-10-24 · in Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer

…platform in a native way. This is how React DOM, React Native, and libraries like Ink[1] work. [1] https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by Tomuus · 2022-09-09 · in The self-fulfilling prophecy of React

…terminal. Allows you to build the UIs using familiar web techniques and even has react dev tools! https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by viksit · 2022-08-03 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

The most modern terminal GUI (as for 2021) would have to use React: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by d21d3q · 2021-08-30 · in Writing Programs with Ncurses

…data flow/declarative render model as you’d use for DOM! The most prominent example is Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by eyelidlessness · 2021-06-03 · in ECMAScript for XML - Direct XML Syntax in ECMAScript

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story by rgbrgb · 2021-05-22 · 0 comments

…calls to write to the shell. Ink is a more interesting and maintained library to consider though: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink It lets you write react-like apps that output to the terminal instead of HTML.

comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-04-02 · in Blessed: Curses-like library with high level terminal interface API for Node.js

…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

…to see some really cool and modern advances for this sort of task, check out the Ink cli framework: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink#readme

comment by dfee · 2021-01-30 · in Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal

Hey that's me! Repo is here: https://github.com/gdborton/those-cheeks Built using ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by gdborton · 2020-12-03 · in Command Line Music Visualizer

Theres ink: a TUI in react, there are others I believe too. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by cyberbanjo · 2020-11-23 · in $ ssh cointop.sh

…Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for creating TUI apps - mind bending! https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink I can imagine the things above being combined with a sandbox plus Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS…

comment by andrewstuart · 2020-09-08 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

In the node ecosystem there are a few interesting ones. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for writing TUIs with react. Here's a project I wrote using that: https://github.com/zephraph/solitaire . It's not as powerful as ncurses, but it…

comment by zephraph · 2020-09-08 · in Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?

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story by amjd · 2020-07-05 · 0 comments

I've been a fan of https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for awhile. Its based off React with a custom renderer. I like it a lot and find it pretty easy to use.

comment by pests · 2020-05-07 · in LTUI – A cross platform terminal UI library based on Lua

…replacements or even frameworks that apply its basics to completely different kinds of rendering ( https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink ). I find it unlikely that the basic idea of component trees, efficient one-way rendering of updated…

comment by crooked-v · 2019-02-14 · in Whitespace killed an enterprise app

…React API for general-purpose terminal rendering, without actually involving any web stuff at all: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

comment by crooked-v · 2019-02-13 · in Whitespace killed an enterprise app

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story by mofle · 2018-04-02 · 0 comments

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story by dsego · 2017-12-28 · 0 comments

Answered in the issue tracker: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/issues/10

comment by mofle · 2017-07-24 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

…you can't even know the height or width of the terminal. So, I think you would need to start there. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/issues/5

comment by ignu · 2017-07-23 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink/blob/master/package.json It's not using React. "X for Y" is an analogy, as in "it's like React, but for CLI apps!"

comment by mhluongo · 2017-07-23 · in Ink: React for interactive command-line apps

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story by ingve · 2017-07-23 · 42 comments

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story by aaronwhite · 2017-07-21 · 0 comments

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Ink: React for CLIs – Build and test your CLI output using components

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