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    vadimdemedes/ink

    🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

    cli
    frontend
    command-line
    flexbox
    interactive
    javascript
    react
    TypeScript
    MIT
    40.2K stars
    1.1K forks
    124 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 6, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 34 days ago, with 173 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #89 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 29, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a React-based framework for building interactive command-line interface (CLI) applications using components and Flexbox layouts.
    • Enables developers familiar with React to create rich, flexible, and testable CLI UIs with CSS-like styling and layout capabilities in the terminal.
    • Use for building complex, stateful CLI tools that require dynamic and interactive user interfaces with React's declarative component model.
    • Use for creating visually structured terminal applications that leverage Flexbox for layout, including padding, margin, borders, and color styling.
    • Use for developing CLI utilities that need to handle user input interactively and update the terminal UI in real-time with React hooks and components.

    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
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    React for CLIs. Build and test your CLI output using components.

    Ink provides the same component-based UI building experience that React offers in the browser, but for command-line apps. It uses Yoga to build Flexbox layouts in the terminal, so most CSS-like properties are available in Ink as well. If you are already familiar with React, you already know Ink.

    Since Ink is a React renderer, all features of React are supported. Head over to the React website for documentation on how to use it. Only Ink's methods are documented in this readme.

    Feel free to play around with the code and fork this Repl at https://repl.it/@vadimdemedes/ink-counter-demo.

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

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    1.1K+28

    Open issues

    34+1

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