bubblewrap is a library that wraps around the Charmbracelet bubbletea
library to provide a simpler API for building CLI
applications that require input from users, without the complexity of managing the model, view,
update constructs underlying the ELM architecture that
Bubbletea and other Charmbracelet libraries are built on.
As a CLI developer, I commonly want to prompt users for things or let them choose from a menu of
options. In some cases, these CLIs need fancy / robust state management and presentation details,
which the Charmbracelet ecosystem tools are perfect for. However, in an equal (if not greater)
number of cases, I want the elegance and flexibility of the Charmbracelet tools, but don't need to
do things like store / mutate / view the state of things done by the CLI. I just want present users
with a nice looking, consistently styled interface to get the information I need, then do the work
in simpler ways without fancy TUIs. This is why I wrote bubblewrap, so that I could have an easy
API / entrypoint into common operations without constantly writing the same boilerplate code around
things like handling different kinds of key presses.
PRs for additional features are welcome!
Examples can be found in the examples directory.