# gizak/termui

Golang terminal dashboard

Repository: https://github.com/gizak/termui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/termui
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-07-10T06:33:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 46/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 31, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4229, "days_push": 419, "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 13582, forks 819 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:03.588209+00:00)

## What it is
termui is a cross-platform terminal dashboard and widget library for Go, built on termbox-go. It provides premade widgets like charts, gauges, tables, and lists, with keyboard/mouse event handling and customizable layouts.

## Use cases
- build a terminal dashboard in Go
- render charts and gauges in the terminal
- create a CLI monitoring UI
- display live metrics in a TUI
- build interactive terminal widgets
- make a terminal-based system monitor

## When to choose
- you need a TUI dashboard in Go with charts, tables, and gauges
- you want customizable terminal widgets with grid or absolute positioning
- you need keyboard, mouse, and resize event handling in a terminal app

## When to avoid
- you need a web-based dashboard instead of a terminal one
- you want a library with frequent updates and active maintenance
- you're building GUI desktop or web applications

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: terminal-ui, data-visualization, charts, gui
- domain: developer-tools, data-visualization, monitoring
- platform: go, cross-platform, cli, windows
- tags: tui, dashboard, widgets, termbox, golang, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- gizak/termui (main) score 46

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.588209+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 2026-08-29T17:13:11.485760+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gizak/termui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:03.588209+00:00, sha 3ae0e1b02b04)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.