# nathanpeck/clui

Command Line UI toolkit for Node.js

Repository: https://github.com/nathanpeck/clui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/clui
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-09-08T16:00:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4533, "days_push": 2185, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1660, forks 40 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:18.370143+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js toolkit for building command line interfaces with components like gauges, progress bars, sparklines, spinners, and line buffers that respond to terminal resizing. It provides a simple API for drawing formatted, column-based text output in the console.

## Use cases
- show progress bars in a node.js cli tool
- draw sparklines in the terminal
- add spinners to long-running command line tasks
- render formatted tables in the console
- build a terminal dashboard that adapts to terminal size

## When to choose
- you are building a Node.js CLI and need simple UI components like spinners, gauges, or progress bars
- you want lightweight terminal drawing without a full TUI framework

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured interactive TUI with input handling and layout
- your project is not Node.js
- you need a library with recent active maintenance

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: cli-ui, progress-bar, spinner, sparkline, gauge, line-buffer, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- nathanpeck/clui (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:18.370143+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 2026-08-30T03:44:40.901958+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nathanpeck/clui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:18.370143+00:00, sha c84181d273d3)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/clui (fetched 2026-08-29T11:17:26.995787+00:00, sha 8d6ee36aa8dd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.