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TUIStudio: A Visual Editor for Terminal UIs That Is Not Ready Yet
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TUIStudio: A Visual Editor for Terminal UIs That Is Not Ready Yet

via Dev.to BeginnersOsaigbovo dil Omere10h ago

I found something today: TUIStudio, a visual drag-and-drop editor for building TUI applications. The pitch is "Figma, but what you are designing is a terminal UI." Canvas, components, real-time ANSI preview. Design the layout visually, export production-ready code to Ink, BubbleTea, Textual, or three others. I wanted to install it immediately. Then I read the fine print. The export feature-- the entire point --is listed as alpha and explicitly non-functional. No code comes out yet. The canvas works, the preview works, but the part where you get usable Ink or Textual code from your design does not exist yet. There is also no Linux build. The FAQ mentions dpkg as if a .deb exists somewhere, but the download page only offers macOS. Arch gets nothing. So: not installable on my machine, and even if it were, the main feature does not work. The idea is still genuinely interesting. TUI layout by hand is tedious in proportion to how much you care about getting it right. A tool that generates Te

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