dioxus/packages/tui

Rink

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.

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) application.

Rink is essentially a port of Ink but for Rust and Dioxus. 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:

• Flexbox-based layout system
• CSS selectors
• inline CSS support
• Built-in focusing system

• Widgets¹
• Support for events, hooks, and callbacks²
• Html tags³

¹ 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.