blessed-contrib
Dev tools
terminal dashboard library
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
17 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score +0.46.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks cool and nostalgic, reminiscent of BBS days
From 3 comments
That's both adorable and oddly soothing to watch. Moreso than "nice" graphics, actually. It may be that I'm old enough to remember when text terminals were the way we interfaced…
SwellJoe on HNReminds me of modem days and BBSs. Sigh.
psp on HNahahah this is great... the map looks like it's something out of War Games
jszymborski on HN
Easier to work with than ncurses
From 1 comment
This is really nice! Just built something quick with it and I find it way easier to work with than something like ncurses, though that might just be because I work with…
mdcox on HN
Useful for monitoring dashboards
From 2 comments
Neat. One cool thing about this is you could wire up a SSH server to show this when you login. "ssh stats.mycompany.com". Or you could wire it up to a browser-based terminal…
tlrobinson on HNthis would cool to connect to newrelic type app analytics data
auvi on HN
Objections
Example data is random or hard-coded, not real data sources
From 2 comments
Seems to be randomly generated- https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib/blob/master/examples/dashboard.js#L92-L101
hbz on HNI'm the Author. Yes, data in this sample is random or hard coded.
yaronn01 on HN
Node.js is a questionable choice for terminal apps
From 2 comments
This is really nice! Just built something quick with it and I find it way easier to work with than something like ncurses, though that might just be because I work with…
mdcox on HNSo bringing some of the web designers into the terminal isn't such a bad thing after all, they have great taste. I'm partially sad its written in nodejs, but I can't really think…
andrewchambers on HN
Terminal ncurses-style UI is an ugly hack
From 1 comment
> I think it's telling that after 50 years, and all the work on GUI's, this is still a good idea. While definitely neat, I'm not that sure that this is actually a good idea. I…
zokier on HN
Requests
More examples with real data gathering
From 1 comment
Awesome project. I will definitely be using this! The provided example is a great illustration of how to build various layouts and use the various widgets. I find it lacks any…
lightstalker on HN
Standalone widgets usable in tmux
From 1 comment
How difficult would it be to split the widgets off into their own independent/standalone terminal applications? I like the idea, but I'd rather lay things out myself with tmux…
yellowapple on HN
Inline image support via iTerm2
From 1 comment
It would get really interesting if this combined with the new inline image support present in iTerm2 (only nightly builds for now). Basically you can do something like : ``` ESC…
sgt on HN
Questions
Where does the data come from in the examples
From 1 comment
It's not 100% clear unless you can read the code. Where is the data coming from? Seems like a lot of animated data with limited data points specified.
FleegmanGuy on HN
Why a gauge instead of a progress bar
From 1 comment
Why choose 'gauge' over the widely used 'progress bar'? Keep up the good work, it looks sleek.
leovander on HN
Alternatives named
vtop
From 1 comment
reminds me ALOT of https://www.npmjs.com/package/vtop you guys should join forces
morenoh149 on HN
blessed
From 1 comment
It's easy to do. The grid layout is optional. You can give relative and absolute positions. The first code sample in the readme shows something like this (though position is…
yaronn01 on HN
OhUI
From 1 comment
As a side note, there is also OhUI (https://github.com/arcanis/ohui, i'm the author) which has the same goal than blessed, but a different api (dom-based) and codebase. Blessed…
arcatek on HN
Conky
From 1 comment
Along with using Tmux as your login shell [1], this would be a nice equivalent to something like Conky [2]. Or, replacing `top` with sparklines, say. [1]:…
clebio on HN
gnuplot ASCII output
From 1 comment
Wow this is the coolest thing I've seen in the terminal since I discovered a sparkline bash script. I've embarrassingly used gnuplot's ascii output to realtime chart Cisco…
cgb_ on HN