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https://github.com/Shopify/cli-ui
CLI tooling framework with simple interactive widgets
https://github.com/Shopify/cli-ui
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CLI tooling framework with simple interactive widgets
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Shopify/cli-ui
- Owner: Shopify
- License: mit
- Created: 2017-05-31T19:15:08.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-29T11:34:46.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-31T04:34:36.405Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.17 MB
- Stars: 980
- Watchers: 415
- Forks: 50
- Open Issues: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
Awesome Lists containing this project
- awesome-list - cli-ui
README
CLI UI
---
CLI UI is a small framework for generating nice command-line user interfaces
- [Master Documentation](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Shopify/cli-ui/main/CLI/UI)
- [Documentation of the Rubygems version](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/cli-ui/)
- [Rubygems](https://rubygems.org/gems/cli-ui)
## Installation
```bash
gem install cli-ui
```
or add the following to your Gemfile:
```ruby
gem 'cli-ui'
```
In your code, simply add a `require 'cli/ui'`. Most options assume `CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable` has been called.
## Features
This may not be an exhaustive list. Please check our [documentation](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Shopify/cli-ui/main/CLI/UI) for more information.
---
### Nested framing
To handle content flow (see example below)
```ruby
CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable
CLI::UI::Frame.open('Frame 1') do
CLI::UI::Frame.open('Frame 2') { puts "inside frame 2" }
puts "inside frame 1"
end
```
---
### Interactive Prompts
Prompt user with options and ask them to choose. Can answer using arrow keys, vim bindings (`j`/`k`), or numbers (or y/n for yes/no questions).
For large numbers of options, using `e`, `:`, or `G` will toggle "line select" mode which allows numbers greater than 9 to be typed and
`f` or `/` will allow the user to filter options using a free-form text input.
```ruby
CLI::UI.ask('What language/framework do you use?', options: %w(rails go ruby python))
```
To set the color of instruction text:
```ruby
CLI::UI::Prompt.instructions_color = CLI::UI::Color::GRAY
```
Can also assign callbacks to each option
```ruby
CLI::UI::Prompt.ask('What language/framework do you use?') do |handler|
handler.option('rails') { |selection| selection }
handler.option('go') { |selection| selection }
handler.option('ruby') { |selection| selection }
handler.option('python') { |selection| selection }
end
```
* Note that the two examples provided above are identical in functionality
---
### Free form text prompts
```ruby
CLI::UI.ask('Is CLI UI Awesome?', default: 'It is great!')
```
---
### Spinner groups
Handle many multi-threaded processes while suppressing output unless there is an issue. Can update title to show state.
```ruby
CLI::UI::SpinGroup.new do |spin_group|
spin_group.add('Title') { |spinner| sleep 3.0 }
spin_group.add('Title 2') { |spinner| sleep 3.0; spinner.update_title('New Title'); sleep 3.0 }
end
```
---
### Text Color formatting
e.g. `{{red:Red}} {{green:Green}}`
```ruby
puts CLI::UI.fmt "{{red:Red}} {{green:Green}}"
```
---
### Symbol/Glyph Formatting
e.g. `{{*}}` => a yellow ⭑
```ruby
puts CLI::UI.fmt "{{*}} {{v}} {{?}} {{x}}"
```
---
### Status Widget
```ruby
CLI::UI::Spinner.spin("building packages: {{@widget/status:1:2:3:4}}") do |spinner|
# spinner.update_title(...)
sleep(3)
end
```
---
### Progress Bar
Show progress of a process or operation.
```ruby
CLI::UI::Progress.progress do |bar|
100.times do
bar.tick
end
end
```
---
### Frame Styles
Modify the appearance of CLI::UI both globally and on an individual frame level.
To set the default style:
```ruby
CLI::UI.frame_style = :box
```
To style an individual frame:
```ruby
CLI::UI.frame('New Style!', frame_style: :bracket) { puts "It's pretty cool!" }
```
The default style - `:box` - is what has been used up until now. The other style - `:bracket` - looks like this:
```ruby
CLI::UI.frame_style = :bracket
CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable
CLI::UI::Frame.open('Frame 1') do
CLI::UI::Frame.open('Frame 2') { puts "inside frame 2" }
puts "inside frame 1"
end
```
---
## Sorbet
We make use of [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) in cli-ui. We provide stubs for Sorbet so that you can use this gem even
if you aren't using Sorbet. We activate these stubs if `T` is undefined when the gem is loaded. For this reason, if you
would like to use this gem and your project _does_ use Sorbet, ensure you load Sorbet _before_ loading cli-ui.
## Example Usage
The following code makes use of nested-framing, multi-threaded spinners, formatted text, and more.
```ruby
require 'cli/ui'
CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable
CLI::UI::Frame.open('{{*}} {{bold:a}}', color: :green) do
CLI::UI::Frame.open('{{i}} b', color: :magenta) do
CLI::UI::Frame.open('{{?}} c', color: :cyan) do
CLI::UI::SpinGroup.new do |sg|
sg.add('wow') do |spinner|
sleep(2.5)
spinner.update_title('second round!')
sleep (1.0)
end
sg.add('such spin') { sleep(1.6) }
sg.add('many glyph') { sleep(2.0) }
end
end
end
CLI::UI::Frame.divider('{{v}} lol')
puts CLI::UI.fmt '{{info:words}} {{red:oh no!}} {{green:success!}}'
CLI::UI::SpinGroup.new do |sg|
sg.add('more spins') { sleep(0.5) ; raise 'oh no' }
end
end
```
Output:
## Development
- Run tests using `bundle exec rake test`. All code should be tested.
- No code, outside of development and tests needs, should use dependencies. This is a self contained library
## Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Shopify/cli-ui.
## License
The code is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).