What's the point of implementing something like this completely in Javascript? Isn't this a good example of something that should be developed in a lower-level, faster language?
Speed rarely matters for imperative user-facing tools. You're going to be waiting for a user to type and respond far, far longer than making some system calls to write to the shell.
Ink is a more interesting and maintained library to consider though: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink It lets you write react-like apps that output to the terminal instead of HTML.
1. https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich
2. https://github.com/gizak/termui
3. https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
Notably absent is the JVM. Another victim of startup time I imagine.
What I really like about blessed was it’s api. At one point I made my own fork and was going to try to maintain it. Then I thought I’d try to port it to nim. These days I just use one of the excellent text ui libs in go which is great mostly because of the ecosystem.
I'm working on a go cli project now and I'm looking for a good one, which one are you using?