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    rivo/tview

    Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang

    14.1K stars
    696 forks
    116 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 435 days ago, with 102 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #64 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Go library for building rich, interactive terminal user interfaces with customizable widgets.
    • Offers a comprehensive set of flexible, extendable components for terminal UIs, enabling complex layouts and interactions in Go applications.
    • Use for creating terminal-based dashboards or monitoring tools with interactive tables, text views, and forms.
    • Use for developing CLI applications that require navigable lists, tree views, and modal dialogs for enhanced user interaction.
    • Use for building terminal user interfaces for system administration tools, such as Kubernetes or database clients, with multi-widget support.

    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

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    From the README

    This Go package provides commonly used components for terminal based user interfaces.

    They come with lots of customization options and can be easily extended to fit your needs.

    This basic example creates a box titled "Hello, World!" and displays it in your terminal:

    Check out the GitHub Wiki for more examples along with screenshots. Or try the examples in the "demos" subdirectory.

    For a presentation highlighting this package, compile and run the program found in the "demos/presentation" subdirectory.

    Excerpt from the rivo/tview README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    696+14

    Open issues

    108+5

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