Beautiful terminal user interfaces in Rust with Dioxus .
Leverage React-like patterns, CSS, HTML, and Rust to build beautiful, portable, terminal user interfaces with Dioxus.
```rust
fn app(cx: Scope) -> Element {
cx.render(rsx!{
div {
width: "100%",
height: "10px",
background_color: "red",
justify_content: "center",
align_items: "center",
"Hello world!"
}
})
}
```
## Background
You can use Html-like semantics with inline styles, tree hierarchy, components, and more in your [`text-based user interface (TUI)`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface) application.
Rink is essentially a port of [Ink](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) but for [`Rust`](https://www.rust-lang.org/) and [`Dioxus`](https://dioxuslabs.com/). Rink doesn't depend on Node.js or any other JavaScript runtime, so your binaries are portable and beautiful.
## Limitations
- **Subset of Html**
Terminals can only render a subset of HTML. We support as much as we can.
- **Particular frontend design**
Terminals and browsers are and look different. Therefore, the same design might not be the best to cover both renderers.
## Status
**WARNING: Rink is currently under construction!**
Rendering a VirtualDom works fine, but the ecosystem of hooks is not yet ready. Additionally, some bugs in the flexbox implementation might be quirky at times.
## Features
Rink features:
- [x] Flexbox-based layout system
- [ ] CSS selectors
- [x] inline CSS support
- [x] Built-in focusing system
* [x] Widgets1
* [ ] Support for events, hooks, and callbacks2
* [ ] Html tags31 Currently only a subset of the input element is implemented as a component (not an element). The `Input` component supports sliders, text, numbers, passwords, buttons, and checkboxes.
2 Basic keyboard, mouse, and focus events are implemented.
3 Currently, most HTML tags don't translate into any meaning inside of Dioxus TUI. So an `input` *element* won't mean anything nor does it have any additional functionality.
