termdash

This project implements a terminal based dashboard. The feature set is inspired by the gizak/termui project, which in turn was inspired by a javascript based yaronn/blessed-contrib. Why the rewrite you ask?

1. The above mentioned gizak/termui is abandoned and isn't maintained anymore.
2. The project doesn't follow the design goals outlined below.
3. The project is released under a licence I cannot use.

Design goals

This effort is focused on good software design and maintainability. By good design I mean:

1. Write readable, well documented code.
2. Only beautiful, simple APIs, no exposed concurrency, channels, internals, etc.
3. Follow Effective Go.
4. Provide an infrastructure that allows development of individual dashboard components in separation.
5. The infrastructure must enforce consistency in how the dashboard components are implemented.
6. Focus on maintainability, the infrastructure and dashboard components must have good test coverage, the repository must have CI/CD enabled.

On top of that - let's have fun, learn something and become better developers together.

Requirements

1. Native support of the UTF-8 encoding.
2. Simple container management to position the widgets and set their size.
3. Mouse and keyboard input.
4. Cross-platform terminal based output.
5. Unit testing framework for simple and readable tests of dashboard elements.
6. Tooling to streamline addition of new widgets.
7. Apache-2.0 licence for the project.

High-Level design

See the design document.

Project status

• High-Level Design.
• Submit the APIs.
• Implement the terminal layer.
• Implement unit test helpers.
• Implement the container.
• Implement the input event pre-processing.
• Add support for tracking mouse and keyboard focus.
• Implement the first widget.
• Implement the infrastructure layer.
• Documentation and tooling for widget development.
• Launch and iterate.