# charmbracelet/bubbletea

A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

Repository: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bubbletea
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cli, framework, elm-architecture, tui, functional, golang, go, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-19T15:32:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2427, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 14, "gap_med": 9.0, "n_releases_24m": 27}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 44577, forks 1305 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:09.325030+00:00)

## What it is
Bubble Tea is a Go framework for building terminal user interface (TUI) applications based on The Elm Architecture. It supports simple and complex terminal apps with a high-performance renderer, declarative views, and rich keyboard/mouse handling.

## Use cases
- build interactive terminal user interfaces in go
- create a tui dashboard app
- write a command-line tool with menus and forms
- build a terminal-based chat or shopping list app
- make a full-window terminal application
- add an interactive cli wizard to a go program

## When to choose
- you are writing terminal applications in Go
- you want a functional, Elm-style model-update-view architecture
- you need high-performance rendering and rich input handling in the terminal

## When to avoid
- you need a graphical desktop or web UI rather than a terminal app
- you are not using Go
- you only need simple non-interactive CLI flags without a TUI

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: terminal-ui, web-framework, state-management, ui-components
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: tui, elm-architecture, golang, terminal-apps, functional-programming, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- charmbracelet/bubbletea (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:09.325030+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:22:00.423601+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:09.325030+00:00, sha d77d96971c54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.