# cronvel/terminal-kit

Terminal utilities for node.js

Repository: https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/terminal-kit
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-19T15:51:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4410, "days_push": 45, "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 3375, forks 207 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:58.493042+00:00)

## What it is
Terminal Kit is a full-featured Node.js terminal library providing 256-color styling, key and mouse handling, input fields, menus, progress bars, and screen/text buffers with image loading. It enables building anything from simple colored output to complex interactive terminal applications without ncurses.

## Use cases
- build an interactive command line tool in node.js
- add colors and styles to terminal output
- create progress bars in a cli app
- handle keyboard and mouse input in the terminal
- build a full-screen terminal application with menus
- prompt for user input in a node.js script

## When to choose
- you need a rich, all-in-one terminal toolkit for Node.js
- you want interactive widgets like menus, input fields, and progress bars
- you want to avoid ncurses dependencies

## When to avoid
- you only need simple ANSI colors (a lighter library may suffice)
- you are not using Node.js
- you need a GUI or web-based interface

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: terminal-ui, developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: terminal, tui, colors, progress-bar, mouse-handling, screen-buffer, input-field, interactive-cli, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- cronvel/terminal-kit (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.493042+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 2026-08-29T18:39:44.161918+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:58.493042+00:00, sha 0e3e9883e048)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.