building-tui-apps

SKILL.md

TUIs are reactive terminal interfaces. Unlike CLIs (single operation → exit), TUIs maintain state, handle events, and update displays continuously. Think of them as web apps for the terminal.

TUI is right when: Dashboard monitoring, file browsers, log viewers, interactive data exploration, multi-step wizards with navigation CLI is better when: Single operation, piping output, scripting, simple progress display

| Language | Full TUI Framework | Simple Interactive |

Use when building interactive terminal dashboards or full-screen terminal applications; when implementing keyboard navigation, live data updates, or multi-panel layouts; when TUI is flickering, slow, or unresponsive; when handling terminal resize events Source: mhagrelius/dotfiles.

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