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Giggles

A batteries-included React framework for TUIs

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i built a framework that handles focus and input routing automatically for you -- something born out of the things that ink leaves to you, and inspired by charmbracelet's bubbletea- hierarchical focus and input routing: the hard part of terminal UIs, solved. define focus regions with useFocusScope, compose them freely -- a text input inside a list inside a panel just works. each component owns its keys; unhandled keypresses bubble up to the right parent automatically. no global handler like useInput, no coordination code- 15 UI components: Select, TextInput, Autocomplete, Markdown, Modal, Viewport, CodeBlock (with diff support), VirtualList, CommandPalette, and more. sensible defaults, render props for full customization- terminal process control: spawn processes and stream output into your TUI with hooks like useSpawn and useShellOut; hand off to vim, less, or any external program and reclaim control cleanly when they exit- screen navigation, a keybinding registry (expose a ? help menu for free), and theming included- react 19 compatible!docs and live interactive demos in your browser: https://giggles.zzzzion.comquick start: npx create-giggles-app

HN · launched Mar 3, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Building a React-based terminal UI library with custom focus and key event routing is purely software logic in TypeScript that modern AI assistants can construct readily.

Discussion

10 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Bubbletea, OpenTUI, Ink

Concerns raised: React for TUI is resource-heavy compared to lightweight alternatives, No tests in codebase is a blocker for production use, Ink has rendering bugs with large lists (150+ rows), Ink viewport/scrolling component implementation is problematic

Feature requests: Add comprehensive test suite, Improve Viewport/scrolling component for large datasets

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 107 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #42 of 108 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 102 days after the earliest competitor.

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