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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.