charmbracelet/gum
A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 43 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
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
565+30
Open issues
228+42
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 320.9K | +9.5K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| vercel-labs/agent-browser | 49.2K | +3.8K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| charmbracelet/gum | 24.6K | — | 58 | 43 days ago |
| Category median | 121.4K | +8.7K | 75 | — |
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