charmbracelet/gum
A tool for glamorous shell scripts π
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Where it stands
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Ranks #280 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 14%).
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 19 days ago, with 72 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a collection of customizable CLI utilities to enhance shell scripts with interactive prompts, spinners, tables, and styled text without writing Go code.
- Enables creating visually appealing and user-friendly shell scripts easily by leveraging Charmbracelet's Bubble and Lip Gloss libraries through simple commands.
- Use for building interactive commit message prompts that guide users through conventional commit formatting in shell scripts.
- Use for creating file selectors or fuzzy filters to quickly pick files or options from lists in terminal workflows.
- Use for adding spinners, confirmation dialogs, and styled logs to shell scripts to improve user feedback and script usability.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
A tool for glamorous shell scripts. Leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code!
The above example is running from a single shell script (source).
Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts and dotfiles aliases with just a few lines of code. Let's build a simple script to help you write Conventional Commits for your dotfiles.
Prompt for the summary and description of changes:
Check out the complete example for combining these commands in a single script.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
557+31
Open issues
208+29
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 207.6K | +183.8K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 289.7K | +12.0K | 75 | 9 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 91.6K | +4.6K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 97.0K | +3.9K | 46 | 124 days ago |
| addyosmani/agent-skills | 106.2K | +3.6K | 75 | today |
| charmbracelet/gum | 24.5K | +0 | 75 | 19 days ago |
| Category median | 106.2K | +4.6K | 60 | β |
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