Developing a terminal UI in Go with Bubble Tea

Developing CLIs and TUIs in Go is fun, and there are really good packages out there to make it so. Let's review one of them - Bubble Tea.

Many developers love using command line tools for daily development tasks, at least I do. It's fun, they are usually performant. For example there are many Desktop applications to work with git, though I believe that the majority of programmers love to use git CLI (or TUIs like lazygit) as it's faster and can be automated, and is the same on all environments: be it your dev machine or server. There are 2 main flavours of CLIs: one is imperative, command-based CLIs, such as git again, or kubectl, where you define everything in prompt using sub-commands and flags. And the second is so-called Terminal Apps or Terminal UI (commonly called TUI) which is more interactive, and is basically a whole application that runs in your terminal.

For example, there is a circumflex TUI that lets you read Hacker News from your Terminal.

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