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Charming Cobras with Bubbletea – Part 1

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I love the idea of specifying a data structure to describe your program's inputs and generating different ways to enter that data.

So far I've seen CLI entry with Cobra, TUI with Boa, and Config file reader with Viper. Who knows, maybe someone will implement HTML or REST API generators next?

I'm writing my own Cobra alternative [1] so I can generate input methods "from the ground up" so I really enjoy seeing how others approach this problem, especially because my baby arrived early so my time is now much more limited :D

[1] - https://github.com/bbkane/warg/

I never had the use case for arbitrary nested input, but I did build a python library that allowed you to specify the HTML input type and the python type to coerce it to + regex validation so that our giant SQL queries would fail at the beginning and not half way thru

I dabbled in generating the HTML forms for calling the scripts, but what I was really excited to do was design a chatbot that would use the type declarations to ask for the scripts' requirements conversationally ("next I need a number for...") (alas, the chatscript dialog files I wrote are not open source, I would love to revisit if anyone wants to take another stab at NLP->SQL)

https://github.com/jazzyjackson/py-validate

I've just spent the week making a TUI frontend to an existing application with Bubbletea. It's been a pretty pleasant experience. I don't have much experience doing frontends and I was not familiar with Model-View-Update.

But after a couple of days of head scratching and some help from the Bubbletea slack I managed to put something together that works.

The only inconvenience was that I have to redirect logs away from standard out, but once I did that everything else was a work in the park.

Since the application wasn't really made to continuously report progress I had to poll my data structures and re-render the UI every 100ms. But as the data structures are relatively small that wasn't expensive.

For whatever reason, I expected this to be a work of art, something of an impressionist style painting, of rather pleasant-seeming snakes enjoying some bubble tea in the grass on the shore of a river.

I like this even better than my initial expectations of a story about actual cobras that somehow involved bubble tea.

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