akitaonrails/ratatui-bubbletea — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Give an existing ratatui terminal app a Bubble Tea-style theme without changing its event loop.
Build a new terminal UI using pre-built styled widgets like spinners, lists, and progress bars.
Structure a new terminal app's logic with the Model/Msg/Cmd pattern via ratatui-tea.
| akitaonrails/ratatui-bubbletea | deepdiy/pdf2md | dgdev25/ruvos | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Language | Rust | Rust | Rust |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | moderate |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires ratatui 0.30.x, mixing with 0.29 in the same app causes type errors.
Ratatui is a Rust library for building programs that run in the terminal with text-based interfaces: menus, lists, progress bars, text inputs, and similar. Bubble Tea is a separate Go-based framework that became popular for its clean visual style and its way of organizing application logic. This project brings that same look and feel to ratatui. It is a set of Rust libraries that let developers give their ratatui programs the visual appearance and structural patterns that Bubble Tea popularized. The project ships in three parts. The first is a theme library that provides colors and styled helpers so existing ratatui widgets look like Bubble Tea applications. The second is a components library with pre-built widgets including spinners, lists, progress bars, text inputs, tables, tabs, and pagers, all matching the Bubble Tea visual style. The third is an optional app-loop library called ratatui-tea, which lets you organize your program's logic in the Model/Msg/Cmd pattern that Bubble Tea uses, while still rendering through ratatui's normal rendering pipeline. Existing ratatui applications can adopt the theme and components without changing their event loop. The theme and components are designed to be dropped in incrementally. New projects can start with ratatui-tea if they want the full Bubble Tea-style structure from the beginning. The README includes working example programs that recreate the original Bubble Tea demos using this library. The project requires ratatui version 0.30.x. Mixing it with ratatui 0.29 in the same application will cause type errors because ratatui's core types are version-specific. The README does not mention a license.
Rust libraries that bring the Bubble Tea (Go) visual style and Model/Msg/Cmd app structure to ratatui, a terminal UI toolkit.
Mainly Rust. The stack also includes Rust, ratatui.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
This repo across BitVibe Labs
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