# vadimdemedes/ink

🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

Repository: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vadimdemedes-ink
Homepage: https://term.ink
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, cli, command-line, interactive, flexbox, javascript
Last push: 2026-08-25T18:52:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3369, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 48, "gap_med": 12.5, "n_releases_24m": 29}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 39741, forks 1040 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:08.001089+00:00)

## What it is
Ink is a React renderer for building interactive command-line apps using components and hooks. It leverages Yoga to provide Flexbox layout in the terminal, so developers familiar with React can build CLIs with the same component-based experience.

## Use cases
- build an interactive CLI with React components
- create terminal UIs with flexbox layouts
- render dynamic updating output like progress counters in the terminal
- build developer tools like Claude Code or Wrangler CLIs
- reuse React knowledge and hooks to write command-line apps
- test CLI output using components

## When to choose
- you already know React and want to build a CLI
- you need component-based, interactive terminal UIs with layout control
- you want hooks, state, and effects in a command-line app

## When to avoid
- you need a simple non-interactive script with plain output
- your project is not on Node.js/JavaScript
- you need a GUI or web frontend rather than a terminal app

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework, cli, terminal-ui, state-management
- domain: developer-tools, frontend, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: react-renderer, flexbox, typescript, interactive-cli, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- vadimdemedes/ink (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.001089+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 2026-08-29T16:24:06.326467+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.001089+00:00, sha a3c300b989e1)
  - homepage: https://term.ink (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:57.174023+00:00, sha 431a7ad550e7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.