# vadimdemedes/pastel

🎨 Next.js-like framework for CLIs made with Ink

Repository: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/pastel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vadimdemedes-pastel
Homepage: https://term.ink/pastel
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ink, cli, command-line, react
Last push: 2026-03-21T09:49:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 71/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 73, release rhythm 51, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2691, "days_push": 165, "days_rel": 165, "gap_med": 153, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2406, forks 43 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:44.111391+00:00)

## What it is
Pastel is a Next.js-like framework for building command-line apps with Ink, the React-based terminal UI renderer. Commands are defined by creating files in a commands folder, with options and arguments typed via Zod and help messages auto-generated.

## Use cases
- build a cli app with react and ink
- create a command-line tool with subcommands and typed options
- auto-generate help text for a node cli
- scaffold a typescript cli project
- build terminal ui apps without manual argument parsing

## When to choose
- you want a file-based, convention-over-configuration structure for an Ink CLI
- you need type-safe options and arguments via Zod
- you want auto-generated help output built on Commander

## When to avoid
- you need a simple CLI without terminal UI, where plain Commander or yargs suffices
- you don't want a React/Ink dependency
- you need a framework with a large ecosystem or long-term LTS guarantees

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: cli, web-framework, routing, form-handling
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: ink, react, zod, commander, typescript, terminal-ui, cli-framework, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- vadimdemedes/pastel (main) score 71

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.111391+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 2026-08-30T02:34:07.026931+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/pastel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:44.111391+00:00, sha a9b51473cfa5)
  - homepage: https://term.ink/pastel (fetched 2026-08-29T10:14:38.711546+00:00, sha 85b61bcae6c4)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/pastel (fetched 2026-08-29T10:14:38.714018+00:00, sha c9c487b86314)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.