Leverage CSS, HTML, and Rust to build beautiful, portable, terminal user interfaces. Plasmo is the cross-framework library that powers Dioxus-TUI

Background

You can use Html-like semantics with inline styles, tree hierarchy, components, and more in your text-based user interface (TUI) application.

Plasmo is essentially a port of Ink but for Rust. Plasmo doesn't depend on Node.js or any other JavaScript runtime, so your binaries are portable and beautiful.

Limitations

• Subset of Html Terminals can only render a subset of HTML. We support as much as we can.
• Particular frontend design Terminals and browsers are and look different. Therefore, the same design might not be the best to cover both renderers.

Status

WARNING: Plasmo is currently under construction!

Rendering a Dom works fine, but the ecosystem of widgets is not ready yet. Additionally, some bugs in the flexbox implementation might be quirky at times.

Features

Plasmo features:

• Flexbox-based layout system
• CSS selectors
• inline CSS support
• Built-in focusing system

• Widgets
• Support for events, hooks, and callbacks¹
• Html tags²

¹ Basic keyboard, mouse, and focus events are implemented. ² Currently, most HTML tags don't translate into any meaning inside of Plasmo. So an input element won't mean anything nor does it have any additional functionality.