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Show HN: Giggles – A batteries-included React framework for TUIs

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i built a framework that handles focus and input routing automatically for you -- something born out of the things that ink leaves to you, and inspired by charmbracelet's bubbletea - hierarchical focus and input routing: the hard part of terminal UIs, solved. define focus regions with useFocusScope, compose them freely -- a text input inside a list inside a panel just works. each component owns its keys; unhandled keypresses bubble up to the right parent automatically. no global handler like useInput, no coordination code - 15 UI components: Select, TextInput, Autocomplete, Markdown, Modal, Viewport, CodeBlock (with diff support), VirtualList, CommandPalette, and more. sensible defaults, render props for full customization - terminal process control: spawn processes and stream output into your TUI with hooks like useSpawn and useShellOut; hand off to vim, less, or any external program and reclaim control cleanly when they exit - screen navigation, a keybinding registry (expose a ? help

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