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Textual Documentation
Company blog · textual.textualize.io/blogprogramming
Textual Documentation is the company blog at textual.textualize.io, writing about programming. Since 2022, 54 different Hacker News readers have linked it 100 times, most often “Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
Most-linked posts?
- Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python24 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2022-10-23
- Algorithms for high performance terminal apps – Textual6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-12-12
- Pull Requests are cake or puppies4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-30
- Textual Tutorial3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-23
- No-Async Async with Python3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-15
- The Future of Textualize3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-07
- Textual Web: TUIs for the Web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-07
- Steal this Open Source code from the Textual project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-20
- /guide/reactivity/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-11
- A better asyncio sleep for Windows to fix animation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-30
What Hacker News says?
There are reasons. Whether they are compelling or not, largely depends on what software you want to run. https://textual.textualize.io/FAQ/#why-doesnt-textual-look-g...
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on “iTerm2 critical security release”Submitted A Year of Building for the Terminal as a story · 18 points
HN discussionShameless plug: https://github.com/candidtim/f2-commander I've been working on "F2 Commander" on and off for a while now. At first, I wanted a TUI to view the contents of cloud storage buckets (GCS, S3, etc.), but it quickly evolved into an orthodox file manager. The funny thing is, the first version was in Common Lisp, but then I discovered Textual and was instantly sold on it - it's really fun to work with. The ap…
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on “GNU Midnight Commander”Submitted Algorithms for high performance terminal apps – Textual as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI was unfamiliar with Textual which seems more interesting than Slowly Braised Lamb Ragu: https://textual.textualize.io/
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on “Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages”Submitted Algorithms for high performance terminal apps as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFlashy TUIs have been around for a few years. Check out the galleries for TUI frameworks: https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/ https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/tree/main/example... https://textual.textualize.io/ I've been drafting a blog post about their pros and cons. You're right, text input doesn't feel like a true REPL, probably because they're not using readline. And we see more borders and whitespace be…
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on “Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal”Submitted The Future of Textualize as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHey there. This project isn't posted publicly anywhere at the moment—it's a very idiosyncratic one-of-one sort of deal. For one thing, while I know Python a little bit , I much prefer to write Lisp. But the Textual [0] library is for Python and nothing else seems to even compete in the same space. So my "outlook-explorer" ("oe" on my command line) is actually written in Hy [1], a Lisp-y syntax swap that emits Python…
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on “Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails”Submitted Behind the Curtain of Inline Terminal Applications as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> Last I tried it, you do have to use CSS. You don't have to use CSS (actually you never did). Every style can be set in code, and the docs have CSS + Python equivalent for every style. > There are no good standard components I guess its been a while since you checked https://textual.textualize.io/widget_gallery/
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on “Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)”Submitted To TUI or Not to TUI as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> They have a virtual DoM https://textual.textualize.io/api/dom_node/ It's not a virtual DOM. It's not technically even a DOM, because there is no Document. The name has stuck, which is why we went with that. Technically, its a tree. One of the most common data structures used to represent a UI, and predates React by decades. > This includes a lot of what you'd expect from HTML, classes, CSS, etc. It has CSS in comm…
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on “Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)”Submitted No-Async Async with Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThey have a virtual DoM https://textual.textualize.io/api/dom_node/ This includes a lot of what you'd expect from HTML, classes, CSS, etc. They have reactive attributes https://textual.textualize.io/guide/reactivity/ It has HTML (or at least a DoM), css, and you design widgets the same way.
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on “Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)”Submitted Overhead of Python Asyncio Tasks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you like Python, try https://textual.textualize.io/
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on “Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?”Submitted Textual Tutorial as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThey are using Textual. https://textual.textualize.io/
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on “Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell”Submitted Textual 1.0 released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNice job, you should add it here: https://textual.textualize.io/#built-with-textual
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on “Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker”Submitted Remote memory profiling with Bloomberg's Memray as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI must say that as an Emacs user, I do feel a bit jealous of UIs like this. Is it something about doing everything in buffers which means we don't make complex layouts like this? Could/should we take inspiration from something like Textual, which this expense tracker is built on top of? https://textual.textualize.io/
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on “Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker”Submitted Towards Textual Web Applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> But again they don't export a Sphinx inventory so I cannot cross-reference their units But they do! So you can! The inventory is right here: https://textual.textualize.io/objects.inv . It's generated by mkdocstrings, the "autodoc" plugin for MkDocs. It's Sphinx compatible.
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on “Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer”Submitted Render and compose – Linear gradients in the terminal as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Sphinx is basically `grep` for docs. I don't really need that, that's what `App site:textual.textualize.io` is for in DDG/Google Let's do a study and compare Rich and Textual, which is based on Rich. Here's a Textual class: https://textual.textualize.io/reference/events/#textual.even... . I need to find what is MessageTarget, so after some futile ctrl-f'ing I copy-paste it into search field. Suggestions show barel…
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on “Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer”Submitted Pull Requests are cake or puppies as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Using a general-purpose static site generator for Python docs feels just wrong There's a spectrum on this; a lot of stuff in the async ecosystem uses mkdocs (FastAPI, etc.) for example. I'd also argue that Markdown is known by waaaaay more SWEs than Sphinx--I wrote a ton of Sphinx years ago and couldn't even tell you where to start today, but I'm fluent in Markdown because I use it everywhere. That says a lot. Loo…
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on “Textual TUI framework for Python adds CSS renderer”Submitted Textual 0.30.0 adds desktop-style notifications as a story · 4 points
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