Rink

Leverage CSS, HTML, and Rust to build beautiful, portable, terminal user interfaces. Rink is the cross-framework library that powers Dioxus-TUI

Background

You can use Html-like semantics with inline styles, tree hierarchy, components, and more in your text-based user interface (TUI) application.

Rink is essentially a port of Ink but for Rust. Rink doesn't depend on Node.js or any other JavaScript runtime, so your binaries are portable and beautiful.

Limitations

• Subset of Html Terminals can only render a subset of HTML. We support as much as we can.
• Particular frontend design Terminals and browsers are and look different. Therefore, the same design might not be the best to cover both renderers.

Status

WARNING: Rink is currently under construction!

Rendering a Dom works fine, but the ecosystem of widgets is not ready yet. Additionally, some bugs in the flexbox implementation might be quirky at times.

Features

Rink features:

• [x] Flexbox-based layout system
• [ ] CSS selectors
• [x] inline CSS support

• [x] Built-in focusing system

• [ ] Widgets

• [ ] Support for events, hooks, and callbacks¹
• [ ] Html tags²

¹ Basic keyboard, mouse, and focus events are implemented. ² Currently, most HTML tags don't translate into any meaning inside of Rink. So an input element won't mean anything nor does it have any additional functionality.